TWO eco-idiots have hurled mash potatoes over a £100million Clade Monet masterpiece earlier than gluing themselves to the wall.
The pair, a part of the ‘Letzte Technology’ (Final Technology) local weather activist group, pelted the watery spuds on the Les Meules portray.
They’d entered the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany, on Sunday carrying hi-vis vests earlier than their daft stunt.
Museum-goers watched in horror because the portray – which bought for £100million at public sale in 2019 – was smothered in mash.
It stays unclear if the art work was broken or whether it is behind protecting glass.
A spokesperson for the German eco group stated of the mashed potatoes fiasco: “We make this #Monet the stage and the general public the viewers.
“If it takes a portray – with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it – to make society keep in mind that the fossil gasoline course is killing us all: Then we’ll provide you with #MashedPotatoes on a portray!”
The duo then glued themselves to the wall as a part of their protest, in what seems to be a copycat of the antics on the Nationwide Gallery in London final week.
Following the incident, Letzte Technology wrote in a tweet: “We’re asking society the identical query as 2 ladies with #Tomatensuppe at London’s Nationwide Gallery final week: What’s value extra, artwork or life?
“Increasingly more individuals refuse to simply accept the destruction and endangerment of human beings, to simply accept life in silence.”
The marketing campaign group seemingly admitted they had been impressed by the soup stunt that shocked the world.
The Simply Cease Oil activists – named as Anna Holland, 20, and 21-year-old Phoebe Plummer – chucked tomato soup over Van Gogh’s well-known Sunflowers portray.
They had been arrested for felony injury and aggravated trespass however each eco-zealots pleaded not responsible at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom.
Their trial date is ready for December 13 on the Metropolis of London Magistrates’ Courtroom.
It has since been revealed Simply Cease Oil pays its protesters to clog Britain’s roads.
The organisation, which has repeatedly introduced visitors grinding to a halt during the last two weeks, is bankrolled by the mega-rich.