Two Just Stop Oil activists smashed the glass covering a painting on display at the National Gallery. The protesters used safety hammers to break the glass protecting the Rokeby Venus painting at the museum on Monday, November 6.The Metropolitan Police confirmed that the pair had been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.The artwork, which was painted by Diego Velazquez in the 1600s, was previously damaged after it was slashed over 100 years ago by suffragette Mary Richardson in March 1914.Just Stop Oil named the pair as Hanan, 22, and Harrison, 20, and said their actions were carried out to demand the Government immediately halt all new oil and gas projects in the UK.Following the incident, they said: “Women did not get the vote by voting; it is time for deeds not words.
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