The presiding judge of the criminal court in mid-June guessed that “the elements of the crime (are not established)”.
During the hearing held at the end of May, the prosecutor requested a two-month suspended sentence for two young women who were tried for voluntarily defiling Claude Monet’s painting “Spring”. There was no damage to the canvas under the glass. Two defense attorneys had called for his release under the guise of free speech and the need to act on global warming.
The two activists, aged 20 and 23, told how they “entered civil resistance” after seeing “legal means” to warn about climate change “didn’t work”.
In February, he was filmed splashing soup on a board: “If we don’t react, there will be only one spring left this spring. What will our future artists draw? “.