A man, seemingly disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair, threw a piece of cake on the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to think about planet Earth.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday that the 36-year-old man was detained after Sunday’s incident and sent to a police psychiatric ward, and that an investigation has been launched into the damage to cultural artifacts.
Videos posted on social media show a young man with a wig and lipstick arriving in a wheelchair. The man, whose complete identity or affiliation is unknown, was also seen throwing roses in the museum gallery of the guests with their jaws relaxed.
The attack on the cake left a noticeable white cream stain on the glass, but the famous work of Leonardo da Vinci was not damaged.
WATCH Creamy cake thrown at the Mona Lisa:
Mona Lisa hit by a cream cake at the Louvre
A man disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair dropped a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris, in what looked like a protest to protect the planet.
Security guards were filmed accompanying the activist in a wig as he shouted to surprised visitors to the gallery, “Think of the Earth. There are people who are destroying the Earth. Think about it. Artists tell you: think of the Earth. That’s why I did it. “
The guards were then filmed cleaning the smeared cream from the glass. A statement from the Louvre confirmed the attack on the artwork, which included a pastry shop.
The masterpiece was stolen, damaged
The 16th-century Renaissance masterpiece has been directed before.
The painting was stolen in 1911 by a museum employee, an event that increased the international fame of the painting.
He was also damaged in an acid attack by a vandal in the 1950s and has been held behind glass ever since.
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.
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