Soup Nazis Attack Mona Lisa: Activists Make a Splash at Louvre Museum [VIDEO]

On Sunday, radical climate change activists poured soup at the Mona Lisa painting in Paris’s Louvre Museum.

The video shows two women approaching the Mona Lisa painting and dousing Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece with soup.

The woman reportedly exclaimed, “What’s the most important thing? Art, or right to a healthy and sustainable food?”

Employees at the Louvre were seen on video installing black panels in front of the Italian Renaissance masterpiece and telling tourists to leave the room.

“Two activists from the environmental movement, ‘Riposte Alimentaire’ sprayed pumpkin soup on the armored glass protecting the Mona Lisa, this Sunday, January 28, 2024, around 10 a.m. (4 a.m. ET), “according to a statement released by the Louvre Museum.” The Louvre’s security staff immediately intervened.

According to Paris police, two people were arrested in connection with the event.

The radical environmental group Riposte Alimentaire (roughly translated as “Food Response”) claimed responsibility for the soup attack on the Mona Lisa artwork and demanded “the integration of food into the general social security system.”

The climate change kooks took to social media and tweeted, “Our agricultural and food system also has extremely worrying environmental consequences.”

🦺 ACTION EN COURS – PARIS

Dimanche 28 janvier. 10h00

2 citoyennes engagées avec la nouvelle campagne Riposte Alimentaire ont aspergé de soupe le tableau “La Joconde” mondialement connu, exposé au Musée du Louvre. [1]#RiposteAlimentaire #A22Network #Joconde #Louvre pic.twitter.com/wfdUhf6K5G

— Riposte Alimentaire (@riposte_alim) January 28, 2024

“This violence weighing on our food and on those who allow it has clear causes: the agri-food industry increased its margins to 48% last year, and its excessive profits are estimated to be responsible for two-thirds of inflation,” the environmental organization said. “Agriculture is responsible for 21% of national greenhouse gas emissions and contributes greatly to the deterioration of our biodiversity and the impoverishment of soils, due to the massive use of inputs.”

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The women were identified as Sasha (24), and Marie-Juliette (63).

The Mona Lisa is perhaps one of the world’s most famous and iconic paintings, attracting millions of tourists each year. Leonardo da Vinci made the painting between 1503 and 1506.

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