Climate change activist dressed as a woman in wheelchair vandalises Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris
The man threw cake at the masterpiece *in protest*
Art fans were left shocked after cake was smeared across the Mona Lisa painting in an attack by a climate change activist at the Louvre in Paris.
A man disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair jumped up and threw cake on the iconic painting, shocking onlookers.
The man attempted to break through the bulletproof glass that protects the painting and then proceeded to throw roses in the air before security escorted him out of the building.
According to witness testimony, the perpetrator was a man in a wheelchair who wore a wig. To the surprise of the other guests, he would have suddenly stood up and approached La Gioconda, throwing the cake at her.
Seeing the man breach security in the museum's most famous room, security workers rushed to the spot and had him ejected from the room.
Fortunately, the cake didn't touch the real artwork. It was only smeared over the glass that protects the famous piece by Leonardo da Vinci.