<picture class="article__media"> <img src="https://img.lemde.fr/2024/01/28/0/0/5485/3657/664/0/75/0/fb6d4f9_5470027-01-06.jpg" alt="Images Le Monde.fr" width="100%" height="auto"> </picture> <noscript> <img src="https://img.lemde.fr/2024/01/28/0/0/5485/3657/664/0/75/0/fb6d4f9_5470027-01-06.jpg" alt="The portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (La Joconde in French), painted by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, is displayed in the "Salle des Etats" of the Louvre Museum in Paris, on January 8, 2021."> </noscript> <figcaption class="article__legend" aria-hidden="true">The portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (La Joconde in French), painted by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, is displayed in the "Salle des Etats" of the Louvre Museum in Paris, on January 8, 2021. MARTIN BUREAU / AFP </figcaption>

Two protesters on Sunday, January 28, hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food," an Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist said.

It is the latest attack on the masterpiece in the French capital's Louvre museum, after someone <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2022/05/30/man-arrested-for-smearing-cake-on-mona-lisa-protective-glass_5985120_7.html">threw a custard pie</a> at it in May 2022, but its thick glass casing ensured it came to no harm.

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Le Monde with AFP

The famous masterpiece, which hangs in Paris' Louvre museum, has long been targeted by protests, and was damaged in 1956 after a man threw a rock at it. In 2009, its glass casing resisted an empty teacup thrown at it.{ai:summary}Two protesters threw soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum, demanding healthy and sustainable food. #society

Mona Lisa casing splashed with soup by activists in Paris

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