‘Appalling’: Just Stop Oil protestors smash priceless painting with hammers

Author Douglas Murray has slammed the attack on a priceless painting by Just Stop Oil protestors as “appalling”.

The two activists used emergency hammers to repeatedly strike the glass covering Diego Velázquez’s painting ‘Rokeby Venus’ in the National Gallery in London.

“This is what happens if you allow a two-year-old child to keep pushing,” Mr Murray said.

“The two-year-old child will keep pushing to get further and see what they can get away with – it’s just the same with these eco-vandals.

“Surprisingly enough, after they came with the soup and the glue, the next time they came with their mallets and their mallets.”