An environmental activist was detained after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris’ famed Orsay Museum.

A climate activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris to draw attention to global warming, a police source told AFP.

The shocking moment was captured on camera as the activist attacked The Poppy Field painting at the Orsay Museum in Paris, France.

A climate activist has been arrested for defacing a Monet painting at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris to draw attention to climate change, authorities said Sunday.

Note: video contains subtitles] A climate activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking a blood-red poster over a Monet painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. In a social media post, the activist said she was defacing the "Coquelicots" (Poppy Field) painting by French impressionist Claude Monet to highlight the "nightmarish image (that) awaits us if no alternative is put in place.

This will leave a bad impression. An environmental protester was arrested for slapping a sticker over famed painter Claude Monet’s “Poppy Fields” at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The woman covered most of the piece with a sticky,

One of the most famous paintings by French painter Claude Monet has become the target of another climate activist action. An activist stuck a note depicting a fictional landscape showing drought on the work "Poppy Field.