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Three activists from Simply Cease Oil threw soup at two of Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” work in London’s Nationwide Gallery on Friday…
Simply hours after two members of the identical group had been sentenced to jail time…
:: October 14, 2022
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…for doing the identical factor in 2022.
In that incident, two members of the group threw tomato soup at a “Sunflowers” portray after which glued themselves to a wall.
PHOEBE PLUMMER: “What’s value extra: artwork or life?”
That’s Phoebe Plummer within the video.
The now 23-year-old was handed a two 12 months jail sentence for a prison harm cost… plus a further three months for the comparatively new offense of interfering with the usage of key nationwide infrastructure.
PHOEBE PLUMMER: “…We can not afford new oil and fuel.”
The opposite activist from 2022 was Anna Holland, who was sentenced to twenty months.
The pair had pleaded not responsible.
Prosecutors stated the soup toss brought on over $13,000 value of injury to the portray’s body.
The work itself was behind a protecting display screen.
It was undamaged and went again on show the identical day.
The decide stated the pair had no proper to do what they did, including, quote, “your vanity in considering in any other case deserves the strongest condemnation.”
Plummer stated she was being made a political prisoner, an assertion that drew a important rebuke from the decide.
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There’s been a wider crackdown on protest actions in Britain and throughout Europe.
In July, 5 members of Simply Cease Oil had been jailed for no less than 4 years for a conspiracy to dam London’s M25 freeway.
They had been the longest sentences ever imposed for a non-violent protest in Britain.
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Friday’s soup throwers focused one Van Gogh portray owned by the London gallery — the identical one struck in 2022 — and one other on mortgage.
The Nationwide Gallery stated three folks had been arrested…
and no harm had been executed to the work
