The world famous Mona Lisa was the victim of a publicity stunt yesterday, as a visitor to the Louvre smeared the glass protecting the world's most famous painting with cream after failing to break through it.
The Mona Lisa was left shaken but unharmed when a visitor to the Louvre tried to smash the glass protecting the world's most famous painting, before smearing cream across its surface in an apparent climate-related publicity stunt https://t.co/4ZrGg0tXSK pic.twitter.com/56eXIGJf3h
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According to Reuters, it's believed that the act was conducted to garner attention on the climate crisis.
The perpetrator was disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair. When he was near the exhibit he jumped out of chair and attempted to damage the painting.
"Think of the earth, people are destroying the earth", the man, dressed in a wig, said in French, before being moved away by security.
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