NGO stages protest in Louvre against museum's oil ties
429 views · Published 12 March 2018 · 1:02 · Indexed 24 September 2026
Channel: AFP News Agency · 2018 · News & Politics
The Louvre briefly evacuates one its busiest rooms after black-clad environmental activists staged a protest against oil giant Total's patronage of the Paris museum. About a dozen protesters lay down on the floor in front of "The Raft of the Medusa", an iconic 19th-century painting by Theodore Gericault showing the shipwreck of a French navy frigate.
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