Two activists from Just Stop Oil They have stamped this Monday two cakes against the wax figure of King Carlos III of England in the Madame Tussauds From london. They ask to suspend the granting of licenses and permits for oil and gas extraction to which the still Prime Minister of the United Kingdom gave the green light, Liz Truss. The two activists have been arrested for damage to third party property.
This action takes place 10 days after two environmentalists from the same green movement launched tomato soup about the box The sunflowers of Vincent Van Gogh in the National Gallery of London while asking: “Is art worth more than life?” with the same claim as today’s act. The painting was protected by glass and the two activists were arrested.
According to the environmental movement Just Stop Oil, with this action they demand the immediate cessation of any new oil or gas project in the United Kingdom, after Truss has lifted the veto on fracking.“The science is clear, the demand is simple: stop the new oil and gas licences,” these two activists shouted as they threw the cakes at the sculpture of Charles III, which is surrounded by other members of the British royal family, such as his wife Camilla Parker Bowles or his son Prince Guillermo.
Two activists stamp cakes on a wax statue of Carlos III as a protest against oil extraction
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The figure of Carlos III has not been chosen at random, since the king, following the advice of Truss, will not attend the Climate Summitbetter known as COP 27, to be held in Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) between November 6 and 18, where he was scheduled to deliver a speech. “He has abandoned his plans to attend and give a speech,” denounce.
In social networks, Just Stop Oil makes an appeal to demonstrate every day at 11:00 in front of Westminster.
Attacks against works of art
This new attack by climate activists comes just 24 hours after two German environmentalists launched a pot of puree on Sunday. the haystacks by Claude Monet, in the Barberini Museum Potsdamsouth of Berlin
These types of actions against works of art have been repeated in recent months as a form of protest by climate activists. Just a few days ago two environmentalists stuck their hand in the painting massacre in korea of Pablo Picasso exhibited in a museum in Melbourne, in southeastern Australia, with the intention of drawing attention to the climate crisis. The painting was not damaged because it was protected with a thin glass.
Also Just Stop Oil pasted paper on the hay cart, by John Constable, from the National Gallery, as a protest against the advance of climate change a few months ago. In May this year a visitor to the Louvre, in a wheelchair and in disguise, threw a cake at Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
In July it was the turn of Spring by Botticelli: three activists from Ultima Generazione glued their hands to the canvas. also from the movement Letzte Generation went in August until Laocoön and his sons and they hung to the Greek myth a banner that said “Neither gas nor coal.”
