Greek MP questioned over gallery attack on ‘blasphemous’ art
Source: NEOS KOSMOS
A Greek lawmaker was questioned Monday after violently attacking artworks he considered blasphemous in one of Athens’s main art galleries.
Nikolaos Papadopoulos broke into the National Gallery and smashed protective glass before trying to steal two works he claimed “insulted religion”, according to the police.
Papadopoulos is a member of the Niki or Freedom party, a far-right grouping close to Orthodox Church figures which has 10 seats in Greece’s 300-seat parliament.
Papadopoulos was held by police, and later wrote on X that the works he targeted were “blasphemous to the Virgin Mary”.
The lawmaker, whose party last year opposed same-sex marriage and adoption for same-sex couples, called the art “repugnant” and said they “brutally insulted the sacred icons of Orthodox Christian believers” in a video posted Sunday.
The contemporary works are part of a temporary exhibition until the end of September at the museum in central Athens, which houses major Greek modern artworks as well as others from across western Europe.
Source: AFP
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