Activist arrested for attacking Monet painting in Paris
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Paris: A climate activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musee d Orsay in Paris to draw attention...
Paris: A climate activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris to draw attention to global warming, a police source told AFP.
The action by the woman, a member of "Riposte Alimentaire" (Food Response) -- a group of environmental activists and defenders of sustainable food production -- was seen in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, placing a blood-red poster over the "Coquelicots" (Poppies) painting by Claude Monet, a French Impressionist painter.
In the video she said of the poster covering Monet's art that "this nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place".
Monet's painting, completed in 1873, shows people with umbrellas strolling in a blooming poppy field.
It was not protected by glass. The Musee d'Orsay did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment on the condition of the painting after the attack.
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