A group of environmentalists cakes the wax statue of Charles III at Madame Tussauds

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  • Campaigners call for an end to new UK oil and gas developments

  • They also denounce the monarch’s decision not to attend the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Summit

A platform environmentalists group ‘Just Stop Oil’ (the same group that a few weeks ago threw tomato soup at a Van Gogh painting) is the protagonist of a new protest gesture. This Monday, two activists have broke into Madame Tussauds London and have dropped a chocolate cake to one wax statue of King Charles III of the United Kingdom. With this gesture, the protesters have called on the British government to stop new licenses for the exploitation of oil and gas: the fossil fuels that are driving the advance of the climate crisis.

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The cake to the statue of King Carlos III, as explained by the activists in a statement sent this Monday, is also a protest against the monarch’s decision not to attend the Climate Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh (COP27). With only a few weeks to go before the start of this diplomatic meeting, environmental groups are redoubling their protests. This Sunday, activists threw mashed potatoes at a Monet painting. A week ago, environmentalists threw a can of tomato soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’. Before, two people they stuck their hands on a painting by Picasso exhibited in Melbourne and a woman threw a cake at the ‘Mona Lisa’ by Da Vinci exhibited in the Louvre.

“What is worth more, art or life? Is it worth more than food? Is it worth more than justice? What worries us more, the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?”, emphasize the activists who have carried out these actions in climate inaction protest sign.



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