LONDON.- Two people briefly covered a work of Pablo Picasso in the National Gallery in London with the photo of a mother and her son injured in Gaza, the museum and the group of the activists.
The group, called Youth Demand, which calls for an end to arms sales to Israel, reported that the two protesters pasted the photograph on the protective glass of the work. Maternity, painted by the Spanish artist in 1901.
A video posted on social media by the group showed a security guard quickly swooping in to remove the photo.
One of the protesters shouted “Free, free Palestine” at the time of his arrest.
During his arrest, on the ground, the protester said that the UK government is “complicit in genocide” in the Gaza Strip and that there is strong support for the campaign to stop arms sales to Israel.
Other protests
This pro-Palestinian group staged another act of protest against the sale of arms to Israel in July in front of the Cenotaph in London, the official monument to the British fallen in conflicts, and planned to interrupt a speech by King Charles III that same month.
The events of this Wednesday at the National Gallery took place shortly before 12:00 local time.
In a statement, the National Gallery said police intervened and arrested the two people. “The room is currently closed. There was no damage to any work,” the museum added in its text.
The National Gallery has recently been the scene of actions by environmental activists.
At the end of September, two activists were sentenced to prison terms for having thrown soup in 2022 on the painting The sunflowers, by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh.
When this conviction was made public, the same painting and another version of The Sunflowers They were attacked again by activists from the same group.
FUENTE: AFP
