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Queen Victoria bust defaced with porridge, jam in protest

  • Queen Victoria bust vandalized
  • Protest addresses food insecurity
  • Demand for cheaper infant formula

Two women, ages 30 and 23, were detained and charged in connection with the incident on Sunday, according to Police Scotland.

As a result of a demonstration at a museum in Glasgow during which porridge and jam were strewn over a bust of Queen Victoria, two women have been charged.

Additionally, the statue’s plinth was vandalized on Sunday at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum as a result of the incident.

According to the climate advocacy organization This Is Rigged, the purpose of the demonstration was to bring attention to the nationwide increase in food insecurity.

The group stated in a statement: “We will not tolerate being brought back to the Victorian era. Once prevalent in Victorian squalor, diseases such as rickets are experiencing a meteoric rise in Scotland, with 356 diagnoses in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the previous year.

The Scottish government is urged by This Is Rigged to establish a community food center for every 500 households in the country.

Additionally, the group’s ongoing campaign requests that supermarkets reduce the price of infant formula to March 2021 levels.

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Two women, ages 23 and 30, were detained and charged about the incident at the popular museum, according to Police Scotland.

With an appearance agreement to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court at a later time, the suspects have been released.

A spokesperson for the force further stated, “The Procurator Fiscal will receive a report.”

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