Greenpeace steals Macron wax figure for anti-Moscow protest


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Greenpeace activists placed a wax statue of Macron outside the Russian Embassy in Paris on June 2, protesting France’s gas and fertilizer imports from Russia. They claimed to have 'stolen' it from the Grevin Museum. Photo: AFP

Greenpeace activists on Monday stole a wax figure of President Emmanuel Macron from a Paris museum and placed it in front of the Russian embassy as part of a protest against French economic ties with Moscow in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.

According to a police source, two women and a man entered the Grevin Museum posing as tourists and, once inside, changed their clothes to pass for workers.

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