Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters

Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters

Two environmental protesters have hurled soup on to the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, calling for “healthy and sustainable food”. The painting, which was behind bulletproof glass, appeared to be undamaged.

Gallery visitors looked on in shock as two women threw the yellow-coloured soup before climbing under the barrier in front of the work and flanking the splattered painting, their right hands held up in a salute-like gesture.

One of the two activists removed her jacket to reveal a white T-shirt bearing the slogan of the environmental activist group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) in black letters.

      • thrawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        A fair amount of people here are actually very much not liberal and dislike liberals heavily. I’m not sure what the right label is (Marxist perhaps) but they use “libs” just like the far right does.

        • Psychodelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          If you look up the definition/political ideology of liberalism vs socialism, vs communism, they’re all significantly different.

          I don’t think Marxist would be the right term. That’d be like calling all liberals followers of Adam Smith. That is to say, it’s helpful to know the history of your political ideology but it’s not entirely necessary

          • thrawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            10 months ago

            So socialist? Or communist? I hear Marxist a lot here but that is a good point, it’s about the only one I’ve seen named after one guy.

          • thrawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            So socialist? Or communist? I hear Marxist a lot here but that is a good point, it’s about the only one I’ve seen named after one guy.