Climate change activist tells court the ‘British public gave her consent’ to attack Velázquez masterpiece

A climate activist who shattered the glass protecting a Velázquez masterpiece in the National Gallery said she had the ‘consent of the British public’ when she carried out the attack. Harrison Donnelly, 23, and Hanan Ameur, 25, allegedly smashed the Spanish artist’s £100m painting of a nude goddess Venus gazing into a mirror held by Cupid while wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts on 6 November 2023. The now-defunct protest group uploaded a video of the incident on social media after…