The Musée d'Orsay filed a complaint for "attempted degradation of a work" after having prevented a young girl from throwing soup on a painting on Thursday, he announced on Sunday, confirming information from the daily
Le Parisien
.
"Following the filing of a complaint for facts qualified as attempted degradation filed by the Musée d'Orsay, an investigation was opened" and entrusted to the police station of the 7th arrondissement, indicated the Paris prosecutor's office.
Similar acts in Europe
If the museum does not wish to communicate on the identity of the painting in question,
Le Parisien
affirms that the young girl first intended to stick her face on the famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh "Self-portrait at Saint-Rémy" before , since she had been prevented from doing so, to attempt to throw soup on a canvas by Gauguin.
This action comes on the heels of other similar acts in recent weeks in Europe, while voices from the art world condemn, from Paris to New York, these acts of "vandalism".
The government calls on museums to be “vigilant”
Environmental activists have thus thrown tomato soup on the glass plate protecting Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London and others, in Germany, have smeared mashed potatoes on the glass protecting the Haystacks, a painting by Claude Monet.
The Girl with a Pearl Earring, a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer, was returned to its place on Friday in a Dutch museum after being targeted by three activists from the "Just Stop Oil" collective last Thursday, without being damaged.
France is not "sheltered one day that a frenzied activist attacks a painting" unprotected, had warned last Tuesday the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak, asking "all national museums to redouble their vigilance ".
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