Two climate activists soiled a display case protecting a replica of a mummy in Barcelona’s Egyptian Museum on Sunday.
The two activists are part of Futuro Vegetal, a Spanish group whose members already glued their hands to Francisco Goya’s frames at Madrid’s Prado Museum on November 5.
On Sunday, activists used Coke bottles for pouring a brown liquid on a shop window and splattered fake red blood on a wall.
They also unfurled a banner with the slogan “Climate Justice”.
The American beverage giant is one of the official sponsors of the United Nations COP27 climate summit, held in Egypt
Environmentalists blame the company for being responsible for much of the world’s plastic pollution.
The action is part of a series of climate change protests by activists who have thrown soup at Vincent van Gogh paintings in London and Rome and mashed potatoes at a Monet painting.
Germany plans to tighten sanctions
The German government studies an increase in penalties against bombings and protests in museums, in response to a series of actions by climate change activists in several European countries, including Germany.
The Ministry of Justice is “analyzing” how to respond to these attacks and, if it finds that the sanctions currently envisaged “are not sufficient”, it will act accordingly, warned its owner, the liberal Marco Buschmann, in statements to the popular daily newspaper of the Sunday “Bild”.
In an open society “it must be possible to express any criticism”, continues the Minister of Justice. But “those who attack and endanger our cultural treasures cross a red line”, warns Buschmann.
The minister of the tripartite between social democrats, greens and liberals of the chancellor Olaf Scholz thus alludes to the repeated attacks registered in recent weeks in European museums.
With information from EFE and AFP
Source: Clarin
