Greenpeace steals Macron wax figure for anti-Moscow protest

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00:00Emmanuel Macron arriving at the Russian embassy on Monday morning.

00:06Or at least a wax figure of him.

00:09Greenpeace, quote, borrowed it without permission from Paris' Musée Grévin,

00:13in protest at France's continuing economic ties with Moscow,

00:17despite Paris being one of Kyiv's most vocal supporters.

00:22We cannot on the one hand support Ukraine and on the other continue to import such massive amounts of gas,

00:28chemical fertilizers and uranium.

00:31In 2024, France was the leading European importer of liquefied natural gas from Russia.

00:36The French don't know this, but it's a reality.

00:39We continue to finance the Russian war efforts through these imports,

00:42which amount to billions of euros.

00:44Greenpeace admitted to taking the wax statue after it went missing Monday morning,

00:49saying Macron didn't belong in the renowned museum.

00:52Police said that two women and a man entered posing as tourists

00:56and once inside changed their clothes to pass for workers.

01:00They then slipped out for an emergency exit with the 40,000 euro statue,

01:05which they covered with a blanket.

01:07The museum said the activists later called to assure them

01:11that the statue would be returned unharmed.

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