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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mathilde Grandjean

Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup at Van Goghs banned from London protests

Three Just Stop Oil activists have been banned from protesting in London pending their trial for allegedly throwing soup over two Vincent Van Gogh paintings (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

Three Just Stop Oil activists have been banned from protesting in London pending their trial for allegedly throwing soup over two Vincent Van Gogh paintings.

Stephen Simpson, 71, Mary Somerville, 77, and Phillipa Green, 24, threw canned Heinz soup over the artist’s Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888 at the National Gallery in London on September 27, Southwark Crown Court heard.

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