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Watch: JSO protestors attack more Van Gogh paintings

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It didn’t take long for the eco-zealots to strike again. Just minutes after Just Stop Oil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for throwing Heinz tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, a trio of JSO protestors have again targeted the artist’s work at the National Gallery. How very tiresome…

The climate protest group tweeted out a video of the group’s latest stunt, urging Brits to ‘support people in resistance’. The clip of the art attack, which was recorded this afternoon, shows passers-by remonstrating with the JSO activists. Shouting at a room of livid art enthusiasts, the protestors raged:

‘There are people in prison for demanding an end to new oil and gas, something which is now government policy after sustained, disruptive actions, countless headlines and the resulting political pressure. Future generations will regard these prisoners of conscience to be on the right side of history.’

Earlier today, Plummer and Holland were locked up for causing £10,000 worth of damage to Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting during the 2022 attack.

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