Overview

• The Picasso painting L’hétaïre (1901) was on loan from an Italian gallery and sheltered behind protective glass during the protest.
• Montreal police arrested the protester, identified by Last Generation Canada as 21-year-old Marcel, and released them pending a court appearance on mischief charges.
• Two individuals who recorded the incident were briefly detained by officers and released without any charges.
• Last Generation Canada said the demonstration was designed to spotlight record-breaking heat waves in Winnipeg and Saskatchewan and the urgent need for climate action.
• The activist group is urging the federal government to create a climate disaster protection agency and has staged similar pink paint protests at the Montreal casino and the BMO Museum.