Environmental activists who attacked “Sunflowers” in courtroom

The 2 younger ladies aged 20 and 21, from the south of the capital and Newcastle, are accused of harm for an quantity of lower than 5,000 kilos. The portray on show and guarded by glass was not broken by the motion of the activists. They pleaded not responsible.

Friday, throughout a spectacular motion, that they had thrown tomato soup on the well-known portray of the Dutch painter, earlier than sticking to the wall. Solely the body had been barely broken and the canvas had shortly discovered its place within the museum.

The choose launched them on the situation that they don’t enter any museum or gallery, and not use paint or adhesive substances in public areas. Their trial is ready for December 13.

Acts of “guerrilla warfare”, in accordance with the Minister of the Inside

This stunt is a part of a sequence of actions launched because the starting of October by the Simply Cease Oil motion which requires the cessation of hydrocarbon exploitation in the UK, which the federal government of Liz Truss has determined to speed up within the midst of the worldwide power disaster.

The third activist, aged 38 and from Suffolk, is accused of getting dedicated harm by protecting a rotating panel in storm paint outdoors the headquarters of Scotland Yard on Friday in London. She additionally pleaded not responsible, and was launched. His trial is ready for November 23. Different demonstrators caught to the highway and the police claimed to have arrested 24 individuals. “The courtroom won’t stop you from protesting legally,” stated the choose throughout the listening to, whereas the Minister of the Inside needs to toughen the repression towards protest actions like Simply Cease Oil, accusing them of acts of “guerrilla”. A number of Simply Cease Oil activists have already been sentenced to jail for his or her protest actions.

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