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The Mona Lisa was 'smeared' in cream by suspected climate change protester disguised as old woman 🧵 👩🎨
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The Mona Lisa was 'smeared' in cream by suspected climate change protester disguised as old woman 🧵 👩🎨
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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 🧁 🌍 #MonaLisa
The perpetrator was a man disguised as an old lady who jumped out of a wheelchair before attacking the glass on Sunday. 👵 🍰
"Maybe this is just nuts to me...," posted the author of a Twitter video of the incident's aftermath that shows a Louvre staffer cleaning the glass. #monalisa 
"Think of the earth, people are destroying the earth", the man, dressed in a wig, said in French in another video posting that showed him being led away from the Paris gallery, indicating that the incident likely had an environmentalist motive. #ClimateCrisis #monalisa
But it's not the first time, the 16th century Renaissance masterpiece has been targeted before!
In 1911 it was stolen by a museum employee, an event which increased the painting's international fame.
Then in 1950, it was damaged in an acid attack by a vandal.
In 1911 it was stolen by a museum employee, an event which increased the painting's international fame.
Then in 1950, it was damaged in an acid attack by a vandal.
Since then the Mona Lisa has been kept behind glass. #monalisa #ClimateCrisis
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Was the apparent climate change protestor in the wrong for smearing the Mona Lisa? #ClimateCrisis #monalisa
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