Mona Lisa left unharmed but smeared in cream in climate protest stunt


  • World
  • Monday, 30 May 2022

A man tries to wipe off the cake smeared on the protective glass of the painting "Mona Lisa" at the Lourve Museum in Paris, France May 29, 2022 in this screen grab obtained from social media video. Twitter/@klevisl007/via REUTERS

PARIS (Reuters) - The Mona Lisa was left shaken but unharmed on Sunday when a visitor to the Louvre tried to smash the glass protecting the world's most famous painting before smearing cream across its surface in an apparent climate-related publicity stunt.

The perpetrator was a man disguised as an old lady who jumped out of a wheelchair before attacking the glass.

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