Two environmental activists have sullied this Wednesday with red paint a painting by the French painter Claude Monet at the National Museum in Stockholm to protest the health situation caused by the loss of wetlands in Sweden. It is not the first time that a painting by the impressionist painter has been attacked for this type of claim, since a few months ago a group of activists they threw mashed potatoes on another of his works at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam.

climate movement Restore WetlandsAterstall Vatmarker in Swedish, has reported on his Twitter profile that two of his activists, after staining the painting with red paint, They have stuck to the glass that protected the paint 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 crisisand that heat-related illnesses are becoming an increasing problem,” explained movement spokesperson Roxy Farhat, according to 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 policehas collected the newspaper ‘Dagens Nyheter’.

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 see if it has been damaged.