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United Kingdom: two young activists imprisoned for throwing soup on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”
United Kingdom: two young activists imprisoned for throwing soup on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”
(France 2)
The two young environmental activists who threw soup on Van Gogh’s painting “The Sunflowers” in London, in October 2022, received 20 and 24 months in prison. A particularly severe sentence, which shocks.
The van transporting two environmental activists to the prison is applauded as it leaves the court on Friday September 27. On board, Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer, respectively sentenced to 20 and 24 months in prison for having doused Van Gogh’s painting “The Sunflowers” with soup at the National Gallery in London, in October 2022.
The two young women did not damage the work, but only the glass that protected it. They thus wanted to denounce inaction in the face of climate change. In front of the court, their supporters brandishing signs in silence are shocked by the sentences imposed. This summer, five more environmental activists were sentenced to 4-5 years in prison, the longest sentences ever handed down in the UK for non-violent protests.
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