Two young climate activists shocked the world in October 2022 when they flung cans of tomato soup over the renowned painting “Sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh.
Now, Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, have been sentenced to jail — part of a new crackdown on the radical climate protests that have swept the world in the past few years. Plummer was given two years; Holland got 20 months.
Just hours later, three protesters wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts threw soup on two other Van Gogh paintings at the National Gallery in London. “There are people in prison for demanding an end to new oil and gas,” one of the protesters shouted.