Just Stop Oil Protesters Damage Glass Cover Of 400-Year-Old Painting In UK
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Two of the protesters were detained on charges of causing criminal damage after they used safety hammers to smash the glass on the Rokeby Venus painting.
Climate protesters have become a daily sight on London's streets, undeterred by the honking horns of irate motorists, personal insults and even arrests. This time, Just Stop Oil protesters were arrested after destroying the glass covering a Diego Velazquez painting at London's National Gallery, as per a report in The Guardian. Several other protesters were detained who blocked the Whitehall.
Two of the protesters were detained on charges of causing criminal damage after they used safety hammers to smash the glass on the Rokeby Venus painting. Velazquez painted the piece in the 1600s, but Mary Richardson, a suffragist, destroyed it in 1914. "Politics is failing us. It failed women in 1914 and it is failing us now. New oil and gas will kill millions. If we love art, if we love life, if we love our families we must Just Stop Oil," the group said.
At least 40 demonstrators who were "slow marching" through Whitehall, according to the Metropolitan police, were also taken into custody.
