France: 'Unbalanced' woman vandalises famed painting

Submitted by Minuteman on Sat, 2013-02-09 05:59

Link here. Excerpt:

'The 28-year-old woman, who is being held by police, is accused of using a black marker to deface the masterpiece at a recently opened satellite branch of the Louvre in Lens, northern France.

Her motives were unclear but her scrawling of "AE911" had some wondering if she was suffering from delusions involving the 9/11 attacks.
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The woman would have faced up to seven years in prison and a 100,000 euro ($130,000) fine if found criminally responsible and convicted of defacing a cultural object.
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In December a Polish man was jailed for two years in Britain for defacing a mural by US artist Mark Rothko at London's Tate Modern gallery.'

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And why is she "unbalanced" just because she is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist? Plenty of people hold views that are considered by the mainstream to be unsupported but still, they are held to account if they engage in criminal behavior because of their beliefs, unsupported or not.

Oh yeah, those people are male. Now I got it.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-02-09 15:01