Mona Lisa attacked with cake by man disguised as old woman in wheelchair

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A man disguised as an old woman threw cake and smeared it across the Mona Lisa in a protest about the planet. The visitor to the Louvre in Paris attempted to break the glass protecting the world’s most famous painting before smearing cream across its surface in what was thought to be a climate-related publicity stunt.

He then was seen jumping out of the wheelchair he was sitting in before attacking the glass. “The man tried to smash the glass protecting the painting, and – when it didn’t break –smeared a cake across its surface,” said an investigating source.“He did not cause any damage after leaping up from his wheelchair.

It was pretty clear to everyone that he was a man pretending to be an old woman.” A video showed a Louvre staffer cleaning the glass after the painting attack, reports Mirror Online.

The poster continued: “(He) then proceeds to smear cake on the glass, and throws roses everywhere before being tackled by security.”Social media responses to the incident described it as “unreal”.One Twitter responder wrote: “It seems unreal to me, but a man dressed as an old lady got up from a wheelchair and tried to break the protective glass of the Mona Lisa.“He then smeared cake on the glass, and threw roses around him before being subdued by security.”Another video on social media showed the same staffer finishing cleaning the pane while another attendant removes a wheelchair from in front of the Da Vinci masterpiece.“Think of the earth, people are destroying the earth”, the man, dressed in a wig, said in French in another video posting.“All artists think of the earth.