Just Stop Oil extremists covered prehistoric monument with orange powder to protest — fossil fuel use.
Infuriating footage captured the moments unhinged climate change activists attacked the iconic Stonehenge monument in England.
Video shows the prehistoric rock structure believed to have been built over 5,000 years ago being defaced by two Just Stop Oil activists using a device emitting orange powder.
Two Just Stop Oil activists have desecrated Stonehenge with orange powder paint. pic.twitter.com/gYznqDorHU
— Talk (@TalkTV) June 19, 2024
Stonehenge damaged by protestors today ? pic.twitter.com/dhfaJGErX1
— Stonehenge U.K (@ST0NEHENGE) June 19, 2024
The desecration of the cultural monument prompted many to question exactly how the stunt protested fossil fuel use.
It’s like watching a 2 year old draw on the wall with Crayon pic.twitter.com/d2KMXIobKC
— ?????? ?? ? ? (@thesonofbran) June 19, 2024
Stonehenge vandalised by just stop oil, because it’s obvious that a few million year old rocks are at the epicentre of the so called climate crisis.
— Ahmed (@ahmedyehia___) June 19, 2024
Attacking a heritage site made with zero fossil fuels to protest the use of fossil fuels….
— Rangers2025 (@ablake5055) June 19, 2024
*Supposedly cares about the planet.
*Goes on to pollute the planet.
— Osher Feldman (@OsherFeldman) June 19, 2024
Try that at The Pyramids.
See how Egyptians respond
— Bobby Ferrari (@Bobby_Ferrari1) June 19, 2024
Just Stop Oil said they performed the stunt to get lawmakers to agree to “sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.”
The group also claimed the powder they used was orange cornflour that “will soon wash away with the rain,” however X Community Notes points out lichen growing on the monument which protects the stones could have been damaged.
The orange cornflour we used will soon wash away with the rain, but the urgent need for effective government action to mitigate the catastrophic consequences of the climate and ecological crisis will not.
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) June 19, 2024
Police arrested the activists, who will likely face charges considering Stonehenge is a protected UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Police have arrested the disgusting criminals at Just Stop Oil who sprayed Stonehenge with orange paint.
Good…. but we need to start dishing out very harsh sentences for these scumbags as a deterrent.
This can’t happen again.pic.twitter.com/ER9AUUzLrf
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) June 19, 2024
The extreme far-left protesters have been responsible for various other inane stunts targeting cultural icons, including destroying the glass protecting a 17th-century painting inside a British museum, smearing orange paint on a Vincent Van Gogh painting, and an attempt to break the glass protecting the historic Magna Carta document.
