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.

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    9 months ago

    Half of the comments here don’t even know what cause it was for. You know you are supposed to learn by kindergarten that there is a difference between good attention and bad attention. Making a scene is easy but ineffective the vast majority of the time. Convincing people is difficult but it is the only way to get long term results.

    You must have met people like this in your life. Someone completely unable to grasp that there are others around them and they got their own needs and wants. Does that person care? No. They didn’t get what they want so now everyone has to suffer.

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      Half of the comments here don’t even know what cause it was for.

      That’s because the news piece deliberately omits that part, at least from the headline. If they didn’t throw soup at an important piece of bulletproof glass, there wouldn’t even be news coverage.

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          This is not about whether the info is available at all, but if it’s loud enough in the shitstorm of information that surrounds us. If news sites don’t report on it, then most people don’t hear about it.

          The article also goes out of the way to put the protesters in a bad light, with “Footage posted on X captured the attack on Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece as well as the gasps of visitors and the cries of children apparently shocked by the incident.”

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            9 months ago

            You are right the article should have said how noble and wonderful they were for not destroying the painting. Everyone deserves a fucking medal for not being as shitty as they could have been

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              9 months ago

              Their acts physically were unable to destroy the painting. I’m just saying that the article seems biased by focusing on the cries of children as if it wasn’t just soup splattering against glass

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      Even if I agreed with your premise (which I don’t) I think it pretty silly to use a small niche internet comment forum as a gauge for saying this didn’t work, when it’s plastered on headlines around the world. And you’re already admitting that it did work, now you’re just debating it’s effectiveness. And that’s not the point. 

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          9 months ago

          Show me the legislation it will change and tell me when it will happen

          I didn’t make that argument. I said

          They did this to draw attention to a cause. It worked.

          but thanks for the straw man argument and moving the goal posts.

          if it didn’t work, then why are you still here whining about it?

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            Ah thanks for admitting the goal was attention, not actual change. Say no more, I get it now. They needed some validation and they got it.

            Hey I am a parent I get it. Except you know my kids are pretty young not grown ass adults.

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              Ah thanks for admitting the goal was attention,

              did you really not understand that from the start? you didn’t catch me is some “gotcha”— people here have been trying to explain this to you for hours because you fail to comprehend this. The point is to draw attention their cause, as I and many others here keep trying to tell you, lmao.

              What you should also understand, as a parent, is how annoying it is when you explain something simple, and the kid just keeps asking “why? why? why?” even though you explained it several times.

              you’re that kid who just doesn’t get it.

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                You don’t have to double down on your admission. We all get it. Your buddies wanted to get into the news and they got it. Nothing will change other than security theater. Whatever cause they stood for will be forgotten.

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                  You don’t have to double down on your admission.

                  nobody admitted anything. it’s in the article.

                  Your buddies

                  oh, so your psychic power are telling you that we’re “buddies” now? fascinating

                  Your buddies wanted to get into the news and they got it.

                  so, you admit that it worked.

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                    Yes I admit they got on the news mind-reader. Nothing will change, no one even knows why they did it, but your buddies effectively managed to accomplish the goal of throwing a tantrum.