A handout photo. Activists of "Just Stop Oil" glue their hands to the wall after throwing soup at a van Gogh's painting Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, Britain, on Oct 14, 2022.LONDON – Two women have been charged with criminal damage after climate change protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh's painting Sunflowers at London's National Gallery, British police said on Saturday .
A video posted by the Just Stop Oil campaign group, which has been holding protests for the last two weeks in the British capital, showed two of its activists on Friday throwing tins of Heinz tomato soup over the painting, one of five versions on display in museums and galleries around the world. The gallery said the incident had caused minor damage to the frame but the painting was unharmed. It later went back on display.
Police said two women, aged 21 and 20, would appear later at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with "criminal damage to the frame of van Gogh's Sunflowers painting". Another activist will also appear in court accused of damaging the sign outside the New Scotland Yard police headquarters in central London.
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