{"id":494197,"date":"2026-02-23T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:52:07","slug":"activists-hang-prince-andrew-photo-in-louvre-to-protest-epstein-related-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494197\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists hang Prince Andrew photo in Louvre to protest Epstein-related misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Activists with the anti-billionaire group Everyone Hates Elon said they put the photo in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/louvre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Louvre;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Louvre<\/a> to send a message that Mountbatten-Windsor should be brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taken by the Reuters news agency, the photo is an unflattering shot of Mountbatten-Windsor in the back of a car, attempting to hide from photographers after leaving a police station on the day of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/france-opens-twin-epstein-inquiries-163834738.html\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" data-ylk=\"slk:France opens twin Epstein inquiries and calls on victims to testify;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France opens twin Epstein inquiries and calls on victims to testify<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prince Andrew arrested<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The photo, which was accompanied by the caption &#8220;He&#8217;s Sweating Now&#8221;, was on display near the Mona Lisa, which had previously been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/france\/20240128-activists-splash-soup-on-glass-protected-mona-lisa-in-paris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:splashed with soup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">splashed with soup<\/a> by environmental activists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The photo was up for 15 minutes before Louvre staff removed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, following allegations that he sent confidential government documents to Epstein while serving as a trade envoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">British police said on Friday they were contacting former protection officers who worked for Mountbatten-Windsor and were urging anyone with allegations of sex offences connected to Epstein to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s sweating now&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The caption posted under the photo hung in the Louvre referenced to a claim made in court by Virginia Giuffre, who accused Mountbatten-Windsor of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager at properties owed by Epstein or his associates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She said that Mountbatten-Windsor had sweated on her at a nightclub. Mountbatten-Windsor, who has denied meeting Giuffre, said in a BBC interview that he could not sweat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He settled a civil lawsuit in 2022 brought in the United States by Giuffre, who died by suicide last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and said he regretted his &#8220;ill-judged association&#8221; with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(with Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Activists with the anti-billionaire group Everyone Hates Elon said they put the photo in the Louvre to send&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,198313,68762,198312,51293,45282],"class_list":["post-494197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-environmental-activists","tag-louvre","tag-mountbatten-windsor","tag-photo","tag-prince-andrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}