- Title: Topless anti-Russia protesters damage monument outside UN in Geneva
- Date: 13th December 2024
- Summary: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (DECEMBER 13, 2024) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS PROFANITY*** ***WARNING: CONTAINS NUDITY*** FEMEN ACTIVISTS REMOVING COATS AND WALKING TOWARD “THE BROKEN CHAIR” WITH ONE OF THEM CARRYING A CHAINSAW FEMEN ACTIVISTS WITH SIGN READING (English): “FUCK U.N.” AND “FUCK RUSSIA” PAINTED ON THEIR CHESTS, HOLDING HANDS AND YELLING (English): “FUCK RUSSIA!” VARIOUS OF FEMEN ACTIVIST DAMAGING THE BROKEN CHAIR WITH CHAINSAW FEMEN ACTIVIST WITH HER ARM RAISED YELLING (English): “FUCK RUSSIA!” VARIOUS OF FEMEN ACTIVIST DAMAGING THE BROKEN CHAIR WITH CHAINSAW FEMEN ACTIVIST PAINTING THE ‘BROKEN CHAIR’ WITH BLUE PAINT / ACTIVIST RISING UP AND YELLING (English): “FUCK RUSSIA!” VARIOUS OF FEMEN ACTIVIST DAMAGING THE BROKEN CHAIR WITH CHAINSAW WITH SIGN PAINTED ON HER BACK READING (English): “STOP MINES ! FEMEN!” FEMEN ACTIVIST DESTROYING THE CHAINSAW ON THE GROUND ACTIVISTS HOLDING HANDS, POSING IN FRONT OF THE U.N. ACTIVIST POSING / ACTIVIST LEAVING ACTIVIST LEAVING PLACE DES NATIONS VARIOUS OF FEMEN ACTIVISTS BEING PUT INTO POLICE CARS POLICE CAR ARRIVING ON PLACE DES NATIONS / BROKEN CHAIR ON PLACE DES NATIONS VARIOUS OF CHAINSAW ON THE GROUND IN PLACE DES NATIONS WITH U.N. IN THE BACK CHAINSAW DAMAGES ON THE ‘BROKEN CHAIR’
- Embargoed: 27th December 2024 11:39
- Keywords: Broken chair Femen Russia Ukraine United Nations chainsaw protest war
- Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
- City: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001698613122024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS NUDITY AND PROFANITY
Topless members of Ukrainian feminist protest group Femen took chainsaws to a giant wooden sculpture outside the U.N. in Geneva on Friday (December 13), prompting police to intervene, witnesses said.
The two women wearing the Ukraine flag as garters shouted "Keep Russia out of the U.N." and "Fuck Russia" as they sawed into a monument known as the Broken Chair, leaving over a dozen gashes.
The three-legged structure, a work by Swiss artist Daniel Berset erected on Place des Nations in 1997, is one of the most famous in the city of Geneva. It was designed to raise awareness about the impact of landmines on civilians in conflict zones.
A Swiss police spokesperson confirmed that an intervention was underway without giving details.
Since it was founded in Kiev in 2008, the Femen movement has won notoriety in Europe for its stands -usually topless -- against sex tourism, homophobia and religious institutions.
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