Sexually suggestive painting vandalized in Paris museum
- May 7, 2023
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An octogenarian was arrested at the Tokyo Palace in Paris, who is suspected of degrading himself by throwing paint hidden in a medicine bottle at the work of
An octogenarian was arrested at the Tokyo Palace in Paris, who is suspected of degrading himself by throwing paint hidden in a medicine bottle at the work of a Swiss Miriam Kahn “To hell with abstraction”who was accused of being pedoporographic.
French Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak confirmed the attack and went to the famous exhibition hall herself. “This is a direct attack on freedom of speech,” said Abdul Malak.
According to Radio France, the 80-year-old suspect was first detained by the museum’s private security and then handed over to the police. The alleged assailant splattered the work with multiple sprays of paint. burgundy color.
An octogenarian with no criminal record has been formally charged with “humiliating a cultural property on display” for which he faces up to seven years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros (nearly 2 million pesos).
The piece, seen by more than 45,000 people, was already the subject of controversy last March, when the Children’s Lawyers’ Association and far-right National Association MP Caroline Parmentier led a campaign against its display.
They even filed an appeal to the court demanding that it be removed from the museum on the grounds that it constituted “serious prejudice to the interests of children”, but the administrative court of Paris rejected it.
The artwork, which claims to expose the massacres committed in the city of Bucha during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is a silhouette of an obese man without a face who imposes fellatio to a frail victim kneeling with her hands tied behind her back.
“These works are very harsh, it is true, but their purpose is to condemn the horrors of war,” the minister said. EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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