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Monday, May 30, 2022
Man arrested after smearing Mona Lisa’s glass with cake at Louvre
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA 36-year-old man has been arrested and placed in psychiatric care after he smeared a glass screen encasing the Mona Lisa with cake, prosecutors say, in a purported protest against artists not focusing enough on “the planet.”
Officials at the Louvre Museum in Paris, where the enigmatic portrait holds pride of place, decline to comment on yesterday’s bizarre incident, which was captured on several phones and circulated widely on social media.
The treasured work by Leonardo da Vinci, which has been the target of vandalism attempts in the past, was unharmed thanks to its bulletproof glass case.
Mona Lisa attacked by cake-throwing climate activist in bizarre demonstration https://t.co/1bZ7HdsTVO pic.twitter.com/GTAy13Y300
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