IN PICTURES: Activists steal Macron wax figure from Paris museum
The incident took place on Monday morning at the wax museum, Musée Grévin, in Paris's 9th arrondissement, a source told French news website
Franceinfo
.
The statue, which was
initially controversial
, is worth €40,000, Franceinfo reported.
The wax statue of French President Emmanuel Macron at the Musée Grevin in Paris. Photo taken on June 2, 2022. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP)
A police source told AFP that two women and a man entered the museum posing as tourists, they are believed to have got away with the statue by using an emergency exit and hiding it under a blanket.
Greenpeace environmental activists set up a wax statue of French President Emmanuel Macron outside the Russian Embassy in Paris on June 2, 2025. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)
The activists then took the statue to the Russian Embassy in Paris, where they set it up, alongside a Russian flag and mock warning road signs, for a protest against France's gas and fertiliser imports from Russia.
Greenpeace environmental activists protest against French imports from Russia on June 2, 2025. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)
According to French media
RTL
, the protest only took place for a few minutes before it ended, without police intervention.
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La statue en cire d'Emmanuel Macron a été dérobée au musée Grévin lundi 2 juin dans la matinée par des militants de Greenpeace qui l'ont ensuite déposée devant l'ambassade de Russie en signe de protestation.
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