• Environment Carlos III, the ecological King

Climate activists from the group calling itself

Just Stop Oil

stamped two

chocolate cakes on the face of the wax figure of King Charles III

at the famous

Madame Tussauds

museum in London, as part of a series of actions carried out since the beginning of the month to

demand the cessation of oil and gas prospecting.

Two members of the group, who had bought their tickets, each smashed a chocolate cake into the face of the wax statue of the ecologist king, Just Stop Oil said in a statement while sharing the protest action on networks.

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A group of environmentalists throw cans of tomato soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' at the National Gallery in London

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A group of environmentalists throw cans of tomato soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' at the National Gallery in London

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Two climate activists throw mashed potatoes at a Monet painting in Germany

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Two climate activists throw mashed potatoes at a Monet painting in Germany

During the action, one of the activists echoed the words of a speech given at the end of 2019 by Charles, then Prince of Wales, in which he stressed that the young people of his grandchildren's generation

"demand immediate action, not just words".

"The science is clear. The demand is clear: stop new oil and gas projects. This is nonsense," activists

Eilidh McFadden

, 20, and

Tom Johnson

, 29, said in a statement.

The environmental entity shared

the action in a video on its social networks

, accompanied by some tweets in which they

denounce the English monarch for "having abandoned his plans to attend and give a speech" in person at the next UN COP27

, which will take place

It will be held from November 6 to 18 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

When contacted by Afp, the London museum did not immediately respond.

The

Just Stop Oil

group launched a series of daily actions and blockades in London in early October, including

throwing soup at Van Gogh's

Sunflowers

at the National Gallery

and spraying paint at an Aston Martin dealership.

On Sunday, activists from the environmental group Last Generation

threw mashed potatoes at Monet's

Les Meules

at a museum in Potsdam

, Germany.

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