Velazquez Painting Attacked With Hammers

[Khandro]

....by two little cretins, beggars belief!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/06/just-stop-oil-protest-national-gallery-painting/

[ToraToraTora]

Cretins is bang on.

[naomi24]

I don't hate anyone - but I'm in danger of coming close to it with morons like these.

[ToraToraTora]

prosecute for criminal damage and sling them in a proper rough nick.

[Lie-in King]

In case, like me, folk are behind a paywall -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67333047

I have to agree, this (& similar in the past) was utterly cretinous behaviour.  The longest possible sentence is required imo.

[naomi24]

They've got t-shirts on emblazoned with the words 'Just Stop Oil'. Why on earth were they allowed in? 

[Lie-in King]

I thought that, Naomi.  Surely door security is (or should be made) available, with bags etc searched for tools, paint & the like?

[naomi24]

Why are they attacking paintings anyway?  Do they really think the oil used comes from oil wells?

[Khandro]

I think they should pay for all the damage, no matter how long that takes, then this on the steps of the National Gallery for a few days.  

https://ibb.co/DzXWXm3

[anneasquith]

Obviously they didn't walk in with those t shirts showing .

I wonder if they realise how daft they look. 
surely more than a fine or/ and community service ,?

[david small]

I would smack them in the mouth very hard. Oops oh my, I fell over...

[Peter Pedant]

I know this is AB but.....

Velasques painting (Rokeby venus actually) glass dented....

But .... the slashers of AB know how to grab a hgeadline.

 

[Sinead_O]

What spoilt brats- why do they think they are so entitled to go out and damage public property?  Pathetic.

[Deskdiary]

They're so full of their own entitled self-importance they are the very definition of narcissists.

[fripfrip]

When they start getting locked up for their stupid actions they might think again before doing it a second time,and i do not mean a couple of months ,i mean a couple of years so it puts their diddly donk mates off copying them.

[Deskdiary]

I got a warm feeling when those two clowns scaled the Dartford bridge and received decent(ish) custodial sentences.

I loved it.

If I'm correct, under the Rehabilitation act they'll have to disclose their sentences for the next 7 years, which will have a serious impact on the everyday lives.

Good.

[THECORBYLOON]

NAOMI, "They've got t-shirts on emblazoned with the words 'Just Stop Oil'. Why on earth were they allowed in?"

 

Perhaps they wore clothing on top to hide the t-shirts?

[pastafreak]

Trashy,simple minded idiots...

// JSO said they targeted the painting to mirror how the Canadian suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914 slashed the painting seven times with a cleaver in protest over the arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst. //

[rowanwitch]

Gallery framing is quite clever, as where it is used the glass is non reflective and there can be quite a gap between the glass and the artwork The glass is  usually laminated to reduce the risk of damage if something like this happens.

[ichkeria]

Extraordinary. They made a nice speech: I think many would not disagree with some of it. But completely ruined it by the ridiculous act of violence that preceded it.