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Climate activists in Germany throw food at Monet’s Haystacks painting
Climate protesters of Last Generation after throwing mashed potatoes at the Claude Monet painting "Les Meules” at Potsdam’s Barberini Museum on Sunday October 24, 2022, to protest fossil fuel extraction

ACTIVISTS have thrown food over a painting in a German museum in another high-profile environmental protest.

Days after Just Stop Oil protesters threw tomato soup over Vincent van Goghs’s masterpiece Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, two activists targeted Claude Monet’s Haystacks painting in Potsdam’s Museum Barerini on Sunday.

The pair, from the Last Generation group, covered Monet’s painting with mashed potato before glueing themselves to the wall.

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