Two women were detained Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden, after they allegedly threw red paint at a Monet painting frame and then stuck themselves to it.
The two women aimed at the masterpiece “Garden of the Artist at Giverny” by a French painter exhibited at the National Museum of Sweden. according to to the Associated Press. It is unclear whether the work and its frame were irreparably damaged during the so-called protests, but a museum spokesperson said it was “currently being inspected by museum conservators to determine if there was any damage.” a representative said.
picture Footage from the attack shows two women throwing paint and preaching to another person filming the incident.
“The situation is urgent. As a nurse, I refuse to watch. The pandemic was nothing compared to climate change. It’s a matter of life or death,” one of the women told the videographer. rice field. She later turned out to be Emma Johanna Fritzdotter, according to the Associated Press.
The Swedish National Gallery said Wednesday it had detained two women in Stockholm after throwing “some kind of paint” on a painting by French artist Claude Monet and sticking it to the frame.https://t.co/wsoMdHndq0 pic.twitter.com/TP54p60DrC
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“The crime is now classified as aggravated vandalism. It is unclear if more people than the two arrested were involved in the incident, but many have been investigated and police have inter alia We will be reviewing the course of the incident with the help of the museum’s surveillance cameras,” local law said. Police have said about the incident according to to CNN. (Related: Two stupid kids try to destroy Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ for attention)
The attack was claimed by a group called Restoring Wetlands, which claims the Swedish government has failed to comply with international commitments on climate policy, Euronews report.
This group clearly realizes how foolish it is to try to force such changes when they are only destroying a valuable piece of European history and making themselves look like idiots. I don’t understand.
