About 30 anti-war activists protested today in front of Pablo Picasso’s historic Guernica painting over the horrors of war, just hours before the NATO summit in Madrid.
Protesters accused NATO of fomenting war in Ukraine and said “security can not be achieved with more weapons”, according to the organizers of the mobilization, Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future, in a joint statement.
Photographs and videos posted on social networking sites show dozens of activists lying on the floor of the Reina Sofia Museum posing as the dead in front of Picasso’s masterpiece, inspired by the bombing of Guernica during Spanish Civil War.
Some activists held placards with the slogan “War is the death of people. War is the death of art.”
The protest lasted about 10 minutes and then the museum staff removed the activists. The museum management declined to comment.
Leaders of NATO member states are due to visit the museum and see the painting on the sidelines of the summit.
Picasso painted the famous work after Nazi Germany sent aircraft to Spain to support the forces of dictator Francisco Franco. The bombing of the Basque city on April 26, 1937, killed 1,600 people and injured thousands more.
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