LONDON — 5 local weather change protesters had been fined Wednesday for gluing themselves to the body of a replica of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Final Supper” within the Royal Academy of Arts.

The 5 activists from the group Simply Cease Oil glued their palms to the portray’s border and one sprayed graffiti on the wall on the London museum in July, as a part of a sequence of disruptive protests geared toward elevating consciousness about local weather change.

On Wednesday, following a two-day trial, District Decide William Nelson ordered all 5 to pay 486 kilos ($587) every for legal harm. He stated the protesters had been “reckless” as a result of they knew they might harm the portray’s body — but in addition stated that the “main trigger” of the protest “was to achieve media consideration and to not trigger harm to a murals.”

The Sixteenth-century portray, which was unhurt, is attributed to a number of of Da Vinci’s pupils and is believed to be probably the most correct file of the unique.

Simply Cease Oil stated it wished to place stress on Britain’s authorities to halt new oil and gasoline licenses. In October, activists made worldwide headlines after they threw tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at London’s Nationwide Gallery. They brought about no hurt to the glass-covered portray.

Different protesters from the group stormed the observe ultimately yr’s British Grand Prix System 1 race. Six activists had been charged with inflicting a public nuisance for the protest, and on Wednesday a jury retired to contemplate its verdict after a two-week trial over the case.