Two Greenpeace activists who removed French President Emmanuel Macron's waxwork from a Paris museum to stage anti-Russia protests were on Thursday charged with aggravated theft, their lawyer said. On Thursday they were brought before an investigating judge and charged as part of a judicial inquiry into "the theft of a cultural object on display",

Activists left it at the Paris headquarters of energy giant EDF to protest France’s imports of Russian energy.

Greenpeace activists removed a wax statue of French President Emmanuel Macron from the Grevin Museum in Paris on Monday and put it in front of the Russian embassy to protest against French business ties with Russia and lack of stronger climate action.