Oct. 24 () –
A group of environmental activists against the use of oil has thrown a cake at the wax figure of King Charles III at Madame Tussauds in London on Monday.
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Videos and images on social networks show two activists dressed in a T-shirt with the slogan ‘Just Stop Oil’ throwing pieces of cake on the face of the figure, according to the British television BBC.
In a video shared by Sky News, one of the activists is seen urging the authorities to “act” on climate change and the use of oil, and not just throw empty words on the matter.
The same television network has reported that, according to agents of the London Metropolitan Police, the two activists have been arrested on charges of criminal damage to other people’s property.
This incident occurs just one day after a couple of activists also threw mashed potatoes at a painting by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, south of Berlin.
Already at the beginning of the month, another couple of activists, dressed in the same protest shirt, threw tomato soup at the painting ‘The Sunflowers’ by Vicent Van Gogh, exhibited at the National Gallery in London.
This recent wave of environmental protests against works of art aims to protest against the exploitation of fossil fuel deposits in the United Kingdom.
