Climate change activists aim soup at 'Mona Lisa' in Paris Louvre


FILE PHOTO: Tourists walk past the glass Pyramid of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, January 15, 2024. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - Two climate change activists hurled soup at the protective glass in front of the world-famous "Mona Lisa" painting in Paris' Louvre museum on Sunday.

Video footage showed two women flinging red soup at Leonard da Vinci's masterpiece, to gasps from onlookers.

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