Overview

• Activists donned worker uniforms to extract the €40,000 wax likeness of Macron from the Grévin museum without detection.
• The 2018-made statue was delivered to the Russian embassy in Paris wrapped in a flag inscribed with “business is business” as a jibe.
• Greenpeace director Jean-François Julliard said the action was a protest rather than a theft and that the museum was informed shortly after.
• The organization plans to return the statue after potentially exhibiting it at another symbolic site to further its message.
• The protest spotlights the contradiction between Macron’s firm anti-Putin posture and criticism of France’s ongoing trade relations with Russia.