Sharjah24 - AFP: In a similar assault to others by climate activists in Europe, a young woman attempted to throw soup at a painting at the renowned Musee d'Orsay in Paris this week, the museum reported Sunday.
The museum declined to identify the targeted painting, although it is home to works by some of the most well-known European artists, including Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Edouard Manet.
After the female activist was detained on Thursday, the museum confirmed to AFP that it had filed a legal complaint for the "attempt to harm a piece of work" in line with a report in the daily Le Parisien.
According to the Paris prosecutor's office, the allegation prompted police to launch an inquiry.
Le Parisien said that the woman attempted to hurl soup at a Gauguin painting after first attempting to approach the 1889 Van Gogh self-portrait at Saint-Remy.
She was reportedly sporting a "Just Stop Oil" T-shirt, just like other participants in recent acts of a similar nature.
To protest Germany's climate policy, two environmental activists fastened themselves to metal poles holding up a dinosaur skeleton that was more than 60 million years old at Berlin's Natural History Museum on Sunday.
Additionally, on Thursday, environmentalists flocked to the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands, to view Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
Earlier this month, environmentalists dumped mashed potatoes over a Monet artwork at the Barberini Museum in Germany while others spilled tomato soup on Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London.
French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak has encouraged national museums to "increase their vigilance" as the attacks get more frequent.
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