Climate activists, who constantly draw attention with their interesting protests, have been targeting works of art in recent months. First the Mona Lisa, then The Last Supper and Botticelli’s Primavera, Van Goh’s Sunflowers and finally Claude Monet’s Les Meules were targeted by activists. Later, some activists attacked Aston Martin’s store in London with spray paints.
Yesterday, a different group of activists entered the Porsche Pavillion, Porsche’s automobile museum, and glued themselves to the floor. With the museum’s closure, activists were trapped in the museum.
They protested oil and emissions with petroleum-based glue (!)
A group calling themselves the Scientist Rebellion (Scientists’ Resistance) entered the Porsche Pavillion in Wolfsburg at noon yesterday and glued themselves to the front of a Porsche 911 GT3 with petroleum-based glue. Just like the activists who attacked the Aston Martin store, he demanded that oil exploration be stopped and carbon emissions reduced.
9 activists who participated in the protest argued that the German government should reduce the speed limit on highways to 100 km/h for all vehicles, and that the public should be encouraged to use public transport and even forced if necessary. Activists, who claimed that Porsche and Volkswagen, the owner of the company, prevented such sanctions by putting pressure on the German government and that they were selling cars to fill their pockets, stated that they would not leave their seats.
The protesters, who refused to accept the meals brought to them by Porsche Pavillion officials because they were on hunger strike, were left in the dark and cold as the lights and heating systems were turned off after the museum’s closing time, as they refused to leave the museum.
After the security guards of the museum illuminated the surroundings, even a little, by using the parking lights of the vehicles, one of the protesters was taken to the hospital because the blood on his hand, which he stuck to the ground, clotted, but the other protesters continued to stay in the museum. The protesters, who shouted at the security guards and described them as “the dogs of capitalism”, had to do it under them because the guards did not help them when they came to the toilet.
The protesters, who were forcibly taken out and detained by the police in the early hours of the morning, became the subject of ridicule on social media. Many Twitter users found the protesters’ requests absurd and made fun of the anti-oil protesters gluing themselves with petroleum-based glue.
The protesters, who have been on the agenda of the media with frequent vandal protests lately, have begun to be ignored because of these strange protests, although their aims were good. After this latest incident, the next target of the protesters became a matter of curiosity.
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