Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’, a famous painting at the Louvre Museum in France, suffered a soup attack.
According to foreign media such as AFP on the 28th (local time), two women who opposed French agricultural policies ran in front of the Mona Lisa displayed at the Louvre Museum and threw soup at the painting several times.
Fortunately, the work was covered with glass and was said to have suffered no direct harm.
In front of the Mona Lisa, they asked, “What is more important? “Is it art or the right to eat healthy and sustainable food?” he said. “Our society’s agricultural system is sick.” “Our farmers are dying,” he shouted.
The incident comes as farmers in France are demanding better wages and regulations. French farmers have been protesting with tractors since the 18th of this month, protesting the abolition of duty exemption for non-road diesel.
Immediately after the incident occurred, museum officials installed a black screen to prevent exposure of the Mona Lisa and those shouting slogans.
‘Mona Lisa’ has been targeted before. The Mona Lisa was stolen by museum employees in 1911 and damaged by a stone thrown by a Bolivian man in December 1956, and has been protected by a tempered glass plate ever since.
In 2009, a Russian woman who was angry about not being able to obtain French citizenship threw a teacup at the Mona Lisa, and in 2022, a man threw a cake.
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