ATLANTA, USA (CNN) – Two fossil fuel protesters, who were photographed on Friday throwing tomato soup in front of Van Gogh’s famous “Sunflower” painting in a London gallery, were charged with two charges against them, he said. Metropolitan police in a statement on Saturday Criminal charges of vandalism.
A police statement stated that two people had been convicted of the London National Gallery incident, while a third person had been convicted of a separate attack on the iconic New Scotland Yard opposite the London police headquarters.
“Three people will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court on Saturday 15 October, having been convicted of offenses related to wrongdoing in central London the previous day,” police said in a statement.
Police indicated that the three detainees were part of the “Stop the Oil” campaign, which expresses an alliance of groups demanding to prevent the British government from granting new licenses to extract, develop and produce shale oil.
Friday’s incident, which targeted a Van Gogh painting, is the latest in a series of protests targeting famous works of art to draw attention to the role of fossil fuels in climate change.
