The Minister of Culture, invited this Wednesday at the microphone of RTL, is worried about these modes of action designed to “shock”.
Ecological attacks against paintings are increasing, and now museums must be extra vigilant. Just last week, the Musée d’Orsay foiled an action on paintings by Van Gogh and Gauguin.
Invited on RTL, the Minister of Culture, in line with Gérald Darmanin who recently expressed concern about “ecoterrorism”, Rima Abdul Malak speaks about “ecovandalism“. “I deplore it in substance and in form. Targeting works of art, masterpieces of humanity that have survived two world wars, that are passed down from generation to generation… It’s a symbol that I don’t understand“, she regretted this Wednesday morning. This, especially since “painters have been the strongest defenders of nature“.
The Minister of Culture ensures that all museum staff are “extremely vigilant“, thus focusing their attention on “behavioursparticularly suspicious. “Groups arriving together, looking for certain paintings“, detailed Rima Abdul Malak. So far, she continued, all actions by environmental activists havetargeted works with panes“. “But we are not immune to even greater radicalization. What is the next step ? It will come to someone’s mind to aim for a work that is not protected to shock even more, since that is the goal“, she warned.
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