(London) Environmental activists from the group Just Stop Oil entarred the wax effigy of King Charles III at the famous London museum Madame Tussauds on Monday, part of a series of actions to demand a halt to oil exploration and gas.
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Four people were arrested for damage, according to London police.
According to the museum, two protesters threw “what we think was a cake at our royal family figures”. The establishment remains open, except for the affected facility, a Madame Tussauds spokesperson said.
Two members of the group, who had purchased their tickets, smashed a chocolate cake in the face of the wax statue of the king, an outspoken conservationist, Just Stop Oil claimed in a statement.
During this action, one of the activists echoed the words of a speech given at the end of 2019 by Charles, then Prince of Wales, stressing that young people of the generation of his grandchildren “demand immediate actions and not simply words “.
“The science is clear. The demand is clear: stop new oil and gas projects. It’s a piece of cake,” activists Eilidh McFadden, 20, and Tom Johnson, 29, said in a statement.
The group Just Stop Oil launched a series of actions and daily blockages in London in early October, where they notably threw soup on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery, or sprayed paint on an Aston Martin dealership.
On Sunday, activists from the environmental group Last Generation threw mash at Monet’s “The Haystacks” at a museum in Potsdam, Germany.