Two activists smear red paint on a Monet painting in Stockholm to protest the loss of wetlands

MADRID, 14 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Two environmental activists stained a painting by French painter Claude Monet at the National Museum in Stockholm with red paint on Wednesday to protest the health situation caused by the loss of wetlands in Sweden.

The climate movement Restore Wetlands, Aterstall Vatmarker in Swedish, has reported on its Twitter profile that two of its activists, after staining the painting with red paint, have stuck to the glass that protected the painting in question, called The Artist's Garden in Giverny.

"They want to draw attention to the fact that the climate crisis is also a health crisis, and that heat-related illnesses are becoming an increasing problem," said movement spokeswoman Roxy Farhat, according to reports. picked up by the Swedish public television channel SVT.

Farhat has also indicated that the painting is "intact" and that the two environmental activists, a nurse and a nursing student, have been arrested by the Swedish Police, the Swedish newspaper 'Dagens Nyheter' has reported.

For his part, a spokesman for the National Museum, Per Hedstrom, has stated that "cultural heritage has great symbolic value and it is unacceptable to attack or destroy it, regardless of the purpose." Monet's painting is being examined by conservators for damage.