On Wednesday, French police arrested two Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) activists at the Musée du Louvre in Paris after they staged a protest in front of Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) . A video recording was posted to the group’s social media account showing the pair placing two stickers that read ‘Résister est vital’ to the painting’s right and chanting demands for social security to sustainable food.
The two were charged with ‘wilful damage’ and a museum representative filed a complaint with the authorities. The painting, however, remains undamaged.
According to its website, Riposte Alimentaire ‘is a profound and collective transformation operation which aims to achieve an ecological and social victory through the establishment of sustainable food social security’. They are the organisation responsible for throwing soup on Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503) earlier this January.
