Greek MP questioned over gallery attack on ‘blasphemous’ art

A Greek lawmaker was questioned Monday aft violently attacking artworks helium considered blasphemous successful 1 of Athens’s main creation galleries.

Nikolaos Papadopoulos broke into the National Gallery and smashed protective solid earlier trying to steal two works helium claimed “insulted religion”, according to the police.

Papadopoulos is simply a subordinate of the Niki oregon Freedom party, a far-right grouping adjacent to Orthodox Church figures which has 10 seats successful Greece’s 300-seat parliament.

Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Photo: Martin Bertrand/Hans Lucas via AFP

Papadopoulos was held by police, and aboriginal wrote connected X that the works helium targeted were “blasphemous to the Virgin Mary”.

The lawmaker, whose enactment past year opposed same-sex matrimony and adoption for same-sex couples, called the creation “repugnant” and said they “brutally insulted the ineffable icons of Orthodox Christian believers” successful a video posted Sunday.

The modern works are portion of a temporary accumulation until the extremity of September astatine the depository successful cardinal Athens, which houses large Greek modern artworks arsenic well arsenic others from crossed western Europe.

Source: AFP