BREAKING: Just Stop Oil protestors arrested for throwing soup over Van Gogh paintings again

Three radical person been arrested aft Just Stop Oil activists threw crockery astatine 2 Van Gogh paintings successful the National Gallery, hours aft 2 protestors were jailed for doing the aforesaid happening successful 2022

Just Stop Oil activists person poured crockery implicit 2 Vincent Van Gogh paintings conscionable hours aft different members of the group were jailed for damaging the golden framework of the artist’s Sunflowers.

In a station connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, Just Stop Oil said: “BREAKING: 2 VAN GOGH PAINTINGS SOUPED HOURS AFTER PHOEBE AND ANNA SENTENCED.

“3 Just Stop Oil supporters person thrown crockery implicit 2 of Van Gogh(‘s) paintings successful the ‘Poets and Lovers’ accumulation astatine the National Gallery”.

The station featured a video of the activists vandalising the artwork earlier telling an aggravated crowd: “There are radical successful situation for demanding an extremity to caller lipid and gas, thing which is present authorities argumentation aft sustained, disruptive actions, countless headlines and the resulting governmental pressure.

“Future generations volition respect these prisoners of conscience to beryllium connected the close broadside of history.” The National Gallery confirmed the 3 activists had been arrested and the paintings stay unharmed.

A connection said: “At conscionable aft 2.30pm this afternoon, 3 radical entered Room 6 of the National Gallery Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition.

“They appeared to propulsion a crockery similar substance implicit 2 works – Sunflowers (1888, National Gallery, London) and Sunflowers (1889, Philadelphia Museum of Art).

“Police were called and 3 radical person been arrested. The paintings were removed from show and examined by a conservator and are unharmed. We are aiming to reopen the accumulation arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

Phoebe Plummer 23, and Anna Holland, 22, were jailed connected Friday aft causing arsenic overmuch arsenic £10,000 worthy of harm to the artwork’s gold-coloured framework erstwhile they targeted it astatine London’s National Gallery. Plummer received a two-year jailhouse term, portion Holland was handed 20 months. The protesters, wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts, threw 2 tins of Heinz herb crockery implicit the 1888 enactment successful October 2022, earlier kneeling down successful beforehand of the coating and gluing their hands to the partition beneath it.