Posted on 04/17/2025 1:34:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Two climate activists recently received pardons after convictions and payments for property damage after gluing their hands to the frame of Raphael’s Sistine Madonna in 2022.
The protest took place at the 16-century altar painting in the Dresden Old Masters Picture Gallery on August 23, 2022. The two protestors, members of the German environmental group Letzte Generation (Last Generation), entered the gallery and attached one hand each to the frame of the world-famous artwork.
While the artwork was not damaged, the demonstration left traces of superglue on the frame, harming its protective finish, and resulting in property damages of around €2,300.
Soon after the protest in 2022, the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, more commonly called SKD) filed a complaint with the city’s public prosecutor’s office for “damage to property that is harmful to the community” and initiated civil proceedings for damages. The two protestors were also banned from all 15 of SKD’s institutions.
In 2023, the prosecutor’s office requested the protestors each pay €1,500 for “community damage to property.” Then, last year, the Dresden District Court sentenced the protestors each to a fine of €600 for joint property damage, after the protestors had appealed against penalty orders of €1,500.
But, after a recent appeal, the Dresden Regional Court legally halved the protestors’ fine to €300 after considering the ongoing restitution process as a mitigating factor, according to a report by German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA).
Since the incident, both protestors have paid over €2,000 in damages to the Dresden State Art Collections.
Last September, the two protestors agreed to a different settlement in a damages case brought by the Free State of Saxony to pay €5,500. Saxony had requested nearly €10,400 in damages to compensate for repair costs and lost revenue due to the temporary closure of the famous museum.
They should have left them there under the glue loosened on it’s own.
Looks like the global deepstate is still in power. The time will come, in the near future, when they will be worshipping Satan and you will have to make a choice. Stand your ground or join them.
The time will come, in the near future, when they will be worshipping Satan and you will have to make a choice.
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Time is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDHmqL39hkI
The twerps should have been sentenced to have their naughty bits superglued to a departing train.
That could take a long long time. And it would disturb others ability to enjoy the painting. Show some compassion and just have their cut hands cut off and leave them in place until they drop off on their own accord. This will prevent this sort of mischief and teach these scofflaws about consequences (which they did NOT learn here). They have their notoriety which will only embolden them and others.
Someone should have walked and slapped the living doodoo out of them. Why doesn’t anybody ever do that?
They should have left them there under the glue loosened on it’s own.
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They should have Tasered them there under the glue loosened on it’s own.
There we go..
too bad these morons don’t use Pippa Bacca’s approach for Climate awareness instead of destroying other people’s property!!
Darn fat finger on the HTML
I can’t recall which factory this was, I want to say Germany. A couple of environuts glued themselves to the floor in protest. Everyone walked around them and ignored them for THREE DAYS. No water. No nothing. Finally, when they were begging the staff had someone come in and unglue them.
As an aside, making yourself helpless and dependent on the good will of others is probably the stupidest thing anyone could ever do. I’m reminded of the best line in “Zoro The Gay Blade,” spoken by The Evil Alcalde. “I have always depended on others being nicer than me, and I have NEVER been disappointed!”
Their hands should be removed and left attached to the frame while the rest of their screaming bleeding out soon to be corpses are hauled off.
I am done playing nice with the stupid.
If that is what it take to get their attention, so be it.
And it’s unpunished crap like this that will result in these acts of stupidity occurring over and over...
They should have nailed their hands there and posted a guard so nobody could interfere.
If it was up to me I would have used superglue as a small,but entertaining,part of their punishment.
Hard to believe that’s real
But it deserves its own threat too
WOW 😨😳
... or give them the option of giving them a hacksaw to release their arm from their hand.
I wonder how long they stood there before they had to pee?
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