Climate protesters target the Vatican’s Laocoon statue

‘The Laocoon,’ aka ‘Laocoon and his Sons,’ photographed on display at the Vatican Museums in August 2011. On August 18, climate change protesters glued their hands to the base of the ancient Roman sculpture. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit FaceMePLS. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
‘The Laocoon,’ aka ‘Laocoon and his Sons,’ photographed on display at the Vatican Museums in August 2011. On August 18, climate change protesters glued their hands to the base of the ancient Roman sculpture. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit FaceMePLS. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
‘The Laocoon,’ aka ‘Laocoon and his Sons,’ photographed on display at the Vatican Museums in August 2011. On August 18, climate change protesters glued their hands to the base of the ancient sculpture. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit FaceMePLS. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

ROME (AP) – On August 18, Italian environmental activists staged a second museum protest in as many months, gluing their hands to the base of one of the Vatican Museums’ most important ancient sculptures, the Laocoon.

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