At the Louvre and in the major Parisian museums, things are going... like a Monday.
Sunday soup doesn't work.
The liquid thrown in the face of the Mona Lisa, certainly behind its armored glass, by two women wearing a Food Riposte t-shirt (formerly Last Renovation), this Sunday morning, which led to the closure of the room for an hour and a half, leaves establishment managers powerless.
When the two activists calling for “the integration of food into the general social security system” passed the bar which protects the icon of Leonardo da Vinci, the four people who protect this highly monitored work did not go in touch with.
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Staff can intervene if they feel physically threatened, without obligation.
Their daily work on the Mona Lisa, in this very dense space, is to make the crowd more fluid, organized in a serpentine line, and to remind the many tourists who take selfies in front of the Madonna to make way for the next ones.
Museum security regulars consider that they reacted perfectly this Sunday: very quickly bring up black panels to try to reduce the media impact of the act, evacuate the room without raising their voice so as not to add stress, then retain the two activists against whom the museum announced it was filing a complaint.
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