Activists toss soup at Monet painting in Lyon museum
Sunday, 11 February 2024 Protesters throw soup at a Monet painting in a museum in southeast France on Saturday. The most recent action by a campaign group that previously carried out a similar stunt on the Mona Lisa last month. The Musee des Beaux-Arts in France's third-largest city said in a release that the attack on the Claude Monet's "Le Printemps" (Spring) occurred at 3:30 pm local time.
On Saturday, demonstrators launched an unconventional attack on a Monet masterpiece housed in a museum in southeastern France. The latest in a series of provocative actions by an activist group, this incident follows a similar stunt targeting the iconic Mona Lisa just last month. In a statement, the...