A man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, while shouting at people to think about the people destroying the Earth.."Think of the Earth. There are people who are destroying the Earth. Think about it. Artists tell you, think of the Earth. That's why I did this," the man yelled as he was dragged off by security guards..The perpetrator was a 36-year-old man wearing a wig and lipstick who arrived at the museum in a wheelchair. After throwing the cake, the man then smeared it into the glass and threw rose petals on the ground before being tackled by security..According to the Paris prosecutor's office, the man was detained following Sunday's incident and sent to a police psychiatric unit. They said the office had opened an investigation into the damage of the cultural artifact..The cake he threw left a smear on the glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, but the painting itself was not damaged by the attack..This is not the first time the Mona Lisa has been lost or vandalized. In 1911, the painting was stolen by an Italian patriot who believed Da Vinci's painting should have been returned to an Italian museum..Following damage from an acid attack in the 1950s, the painting was permanently put behind glass. .In 2009, a Russian woman who was angry at not being able to get French citizenship threw a ceramic cup at the glass.
A man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, while shouting at people to think about the people destroying the Earth.."Think of the Earth. There are people who are destroying the Earth. Think about it. Artists tell you, think of the Earth. That's why I did this," the man yelled as he was dragged off by security guards..The perpetrator was a 36-year-old man wearing a wig and lipstick who arrived at the museum in a wheelchair. After throwing the cake, the man then smeared it into the glass and threw rose petals on the ground before being tackled by security..According to the Paris prosecutor's office, the man was detained following Sunday's incident and sent to a police psychiatric unit. They said the office had opened an investigation into the damage of the cultural artifact..The cake he threw left a smear on the glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, but the painting itself was not damaged by the attack..This is not the first time the Mona Lisa has been lost or vandalized. In 1911, the painting was stolen by an Italian patriot who believed Da Vinci's painting should have been returned to an Italian museum..Following damage from an acid attack in the 1950s, the painting was permanently put behind glass. .In 2009, a Russian woman who was angry at not being able to get French citizenship threw a ceramic cup at the glass.
