PARIS (AFP) – Two protesters yesterday hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in Paris, demanding the right to “healthy and sustainable food”, an AFP journalist saw.
Two women threw red and orange soup onto the glass protecting the smiling lady to gasps from the crowd in the French capital’s Louvre museum, an journalist reported.
“What is more important? Art or the right to healthy and sustainable food,” they asked, standing in front of the painting and speaking in turn. “Your agricultural system is sick. Our farmers are dying at work.”
The action comes as French farmers have been protesting for days to demand better pay, taxes and regulations.
