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The Mona Lisa is attacked by a cookie-throwing environmental warrior in a bizarre ploy that fortunately fails to harm her famous smile.
Videos posted on social media appear to show a young man in a wig and lipstick arriving at the Louvre Museum in Paris in a wheelchair on Sunday – then jumping and attacking Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th-century masterpiece.
According to Agence France-Presse, the man, whose identity was not immediately revealed, tried to “smash the bulletproof glass”.
He then “proceeds to smear the cake on the glass and throw flowers everywhere, before security confronts him,” tweeted the witness under the name Lukeee.
Other footage shows the protester emerging from the famous museum in front of the famous, undamaged smile of the Mona Lisa.
“Think of the ground,” the wig-wearing attacker shouted after the attack.
There are people who are destroying the earth. think about it. Artists tell you: Think of the Earth. That’s why I did it,” he said, without explaining why Da Vinci’s masterpiece should make a target.
The cream, which was covered with bulletproof glass due to a series of other attacks, was quickly wiped out by the workers.
The Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 by a museum employee, then damaged in an acid attack by a vandal in the 1950s.
In 2009, a Russian woman angry at her inability to obtain French citizenship threw a ceramic cup, smashing the cup but without damaging the glass or plate.
Officials at the Louvre could not be reached for comment.
with wire
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