The Louvre Museum filed a lawsuit against the individual who this Sunday threw a cake against the glass that protects Leonardo Da Vinci’s La Gioconda, according to the agency. Eph. The man had entered in a wheelchair and wearing a wig.
“The Louvre applied the usual procedure for people with reduced mobility, allowing them to admire this major work of the Louvre,” the institution quoted by the Spanish agency said. Once the individual was near the painting, he threw a cake that he had hidden among his personal belongings, but did not cause damage to the piece, which is protected by bulletproof glass.
A visitor to the Louvre attacks La Gioconda by throwing a cake https://t.co/GMnU753ifB pic.twitter.com/nnmFupO65A
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“The individual was immediately seized and evacuated by security agents and then handed over to the police, who went to the site,” they add from the museum, according to the source.
In several videos posted by visitors on social media, an individual in a wheelchair, wearing a wig and cap, is seen being led out of the room by security personnel while shouting: “Think of the Earth. There are people who are destroying the planet. That is why I have done this.”
Although there are no images of the moment in which the man throws the cake, the snapshots of the visitors allow to see the Louvre staff collecting the remains of the cake and cleaning the glass, which was stained for a while.
The Louvre recently made restorations in the room where the canvas from the beginning of the 16th century is exhibited with the aim of bringing order to the crowds that usually occur. It was a glass that made it possible to protect the work, which has been the victim of other attacks, such as when a man threw a cup at it in 2009, or when in 1974 it was loaned to Japan and a woman tried to destroy it with a red aerosol.
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