Two more Van Gogh paintings souped after Just Stop Oil activists sentenced – POLITICO

Just Stop Oil campaigners threw soup at two paintings in London’s National Gallery just hours after two of their fellow activists were sentenced to time in prison for the same act.

According to the National Gallery, three people entered Room 6 of the “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” exhibition at 2.30 p.m. London time on Friday and threw vegetable soup on two of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” paintings.

“There are people in prison for demanding an end to new oil and gas, something which is now government policy, after sustained, disruptive actions, countless headlines and the resulting political pressure,” one of the campaigners said, after throwing the soup. “Future generations will regard these prisoners of conscience to be on the right side of history.”