The two activists, aged 20 and 23, who last February threw soup at the painting 'Le Printemps' ('Spring'), by the famous French painter Claude Monet, were acquitted, according to the French press. The Lyon Public Prosecutor's Office has already announced that it will appeal the decision.
"The Lyon Public Prosecutor's Office has appealed the acquittal decision made by the criminal court in this case," a source from the Public Prosecutor's Office told Le Figaro on Friday.
During the court hearing, prosecutors had requested two months of suspended imprisonment for the young women due to the protest that took place at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, accusing them of having "voluntarily destroyed the painting Le Printemps, by Claude Monet". However, the artwork did not suffer any damage and the judge found that "the elements constituting an offense have not been established".
The two activists belong to the group 'Riposte Alimentaire', to which the two young people who, on January 28, threw soup at Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, Mona Lisa, on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris, also belonged.
Identified as Ilona and Sophie, the young women said: "This spring will be the only one we have left if we don't react." "What will our future artists paint? What will we dream of if there are no more sources?", they asked.
The 'Riposte Alimentaire' group defends an alternative solution to the climate challenge and food security, proposing that food be included in the Social Security regime as part of a transformation of agriculture to make it more sustainable and pay fairly to those professionals in the field.
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