Italian environmental protesters glued their hands to the base of an ancient statue in a Vatican museum, in an effort to pressure Rome against reopening old coal mines and launching plans to drill for natural gas.
Italian environmental protesters glued their hands to the base of an ancient statue in a Vatican museum on Thursday, in an effort to pressure
Rome against reopening old coal mines and launching plans to drill for natural gas. The protest was the latest effort by European environmental activists in recent months that targeted famous artwork.The Laocoon statue, believed to have been carved in ancient Greece around 40 to 30 B.C., depicts an ill-fated Trojan priest, whose warnings to his countrymen against accepting a horse gifted by the Greeks went unheeded.
The protesters said the statue was unharmed. They were arrested by Vatican security and taken to an Italian police station, according to the Associated Press.
26-year-old art history graduate who glued her hand to the sculpture. She was identified only as Laura. Many similar recent protests have also involved paintings and sculptures in Europe. In July, activists from the same group
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