PARIS, May 30 (Reuters) – A Mona Lisa visitor arrived in the Louvre on Sunday from a weather-related advertising stunt when she tried to break the glass, which protects the world’s most famous painting, before applying cream to its surface, but was unharmed.
The culprit is a man disguised as an old woman who jumped out of a wheelchair before hitting a mirror.
“Maybe this’s just scary for me …” The author released a video of the aftermath of the incident showing the Louvre employee cleaning the glass. “(He) then rubs the cake on the glass and throws roses everywhere before being tackled by security.”
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The Louvre was not immediately available for comment.
Another video posted on social media showed the same employee cleaning the pen while another assistant removed the wheelchair from the front of Da Vinci’s masterpiece.
“Think of the earth, people are destroying the earth”, another video showing a person wearing a wig being taken away from a Paris gallery in a wheelchair suggests that the incident may have been an environmental activist. Purpose.
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Report by Tassilo Hummel; Editing by John Stone Street
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