The Mona Lisa was attacked by an eco-warrior throwing cakes in a strange cascade, which fortunately failed to hurt her famous smile.
Videos posted on social media appear to show a young man with a wig and lipstick arriving at the Louvre in Paris in a wheelchair on Sunday – then jumping and attacking Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th-century masterpiece.
The man, who was not identified immediately, first tried to “break the armor-resistant glass,” one witness said, according to AFP.
A cake-throwing activist tried to damage the famous Mona Lisa in Paris, but was thwarted by the glass window in the picture. Twitter / @ klevisl007 / via REUTERS
He then “continues to spread cake on the glass and throw roses everywhere before being beaten by the guards,” tweeted a witness named Lukeee.
Other footage shows the protester fighting from the famous museum in front of the intact famous smile of the Mona Lisa.
“Think of the Earth,” the attacker shouted with a wig after the attack.
“There are people who are destroying the Earth. Think about this. Artists tell you: think of the Earth. That’s why I did it, “he said, without explaining why it should make Da Vinci’s masterpiece a target.
Visitors take photos and videos of the Mona Lisa painting after the cake has been smeared on the protective glass. Twitter /@klevisl007/via REUTERS @ klevisl007 / via REUTERS The man, who was not identified immediately, first tried to “break the armor-resistant glass”, one witness said. AP Photo / Thibault Camus, File
Officers quickly wiped off the cream, which was covered with armored glass due to a series of other attacks.
The Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 by a museum employee and then damaged in an acid attack by a vandal in the 1950s.
In 2009, a Russian woman who was angry that she could not obtain French citizenship threw a ceramic cup at her, breaking the cup but not damaging the glass or the painting.
Louvre officials were not immediately available for comment.
With postal wires
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