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Woman from Riposte Alimentaire arrested after sticking poster on impressionist painter’s Coquelicots

Archived version: https://archive.ph/f2pe2

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least they are no longer damaging the paintings, so I'm OK with this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Watch the video. She put a film on the painting that looks like paint. It's fake paint.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

When were they damaging paintings prior?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Actually I'm not sure they ever did. I remember the first one of these they specifically attacked a painted they knew had a glass protection in front of it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The articles are always written to make them seem like they destroyed something and everyone always jumps on the hate train.

People are idiots, on Reddit or here.