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    Aria Sorell VantineBy Aria Sorell VantineJanuary 15, 2024No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Spanish authorities have arrested a bunch of local weather activists accused of finishing up a collection of occasions at artwork museums throughout Europe.

    The 22 individuals arrested had been in reference to 65 local weather demonstrations, together with blocking site visitors and throwing paint and different sticky substances on federal property, in keeping with a police assertion.A police spokesman instructed police AFP The suspects belong to the Spanish militant group Futuro Vegetal, which made headlines in November 2022 when two of its members glued their palms to the frames of two work by Francisco Goya at Madrid’s Prado Museum superior.

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    Two white protesters wearing T-shirts said "Just stop oiling" Their hands were glued to the wall in front of Van Gogh’s sunflowers, smeared with tomato soup.

    The Prado protests did no lasting harm to 18th-century works—bare mahar and Maha in garments— however protesters painted “+1.5°C” on the wall between the 2 work, a reference to the Paris Settlement’s purpose of retaining international temperature rise under 1.5 levels Celsius.

    In recent times, environmentalists have staged more and more blatant stunts at artwork museums around the globe to attract consideration to the local weather disaster.In June, two protesters had been arrested in Stockholm for throwing “some sort of paint” on a Claude Monet portray Giverny Artists BackyardThen glued itself to the body, studies the Nationwide Museum of Sweden.Final October, members of the British group Simply Cease Oil poured tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s house. sunflower October on the Nationwide Gallery, London.

    Police say 22 Futuro Vegetal activists arrange a “legal construction” and brought about greater than half one million euros in harm. The arrests had been made in December, in keeping with an announcement posted by the group on X. Police additionally reported that the group had raised greater than €140,000 in donations from worldwide supporters.

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