Mona Lisa, smeared with cream in a trick against the climate

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The perpetrator is a man disguised as an elderly lady who jumped from a wheelchair.

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Visitors take photos and videos of the painting “Mona Lisa” after the cake was smeared on the protective glass at the Lourdes Museum in Paris, France, May 29, 2022 in this image on the screen obtained from a video on social networks. Twitter / @ klevisl007 / via REUTERS

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PARIS – The Mona Lisa was shaken but unharmed on Sunday when a visitor to the Louvre tried to break the glass protecting the world’s most famous painting before smearing cream on its surface in an obvious climate campaign.

The perpetrator is a man disguised as an elderly lady who jumped out of a wheelchair before attacking the glass.

“Maybe it’s just crazy for me,” said the author of a video of the aftermath of the incident, which shows a Louvre employee cleaning the glass. “(He) then starts smearing the cake on the glass and throws roses everywhere before being attacked by the guards.

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The Louvre was not immediately available for comment.

Another video posted on social media shows that the same employee finished cleaning the glass while another employee removed a wheelchair from Da Vinci’s masterpiece.

“Think of the land, people are destroying the land,” the man in the wig said in French in another video, which shows him being taken from a gallery in Paris in a wheelchair, indicating that the incident may have involved a conservationist. motive.