Greenpeace activists steal Macron's wax figure in Paris

Greenpeace activists on Monday stole a wax figure of President Emmanuel Macron from a Paris museum. They placed it in front of the Russian embassy as part of a protest against French economic ties with Moscow in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.

According to a police source, two women and a man entered the Grevin Museum, posing as tourists, and, once inside, changed their clothes to disguise themselves as workers.

The activists slipped out through an emergency exit with the waxwork, estimated to be worth 40,000 euros, which they had covered up.

The museum said that the activists had called to promise that the statue would be returned "unharmed".

"They had done their research very thoroughly," a museum spokeswoman told AFP.

According to the spokeswoman, the activists distracted a security guard by asking a question about a disabled access lift while some of them donned maintenance coats.

After making away with the Macron wax figure, the Greenpeace activists placed it in front of the Russian embassy in a protest against the economic ties between France and Russia in the gas, chemical fertilizer and nuclear sectors.

The action in front of the embassy lasted only a few minutes.

The activists unfurled a Russian flag behind the Macron statue while one man held up a yellow placard reading "Business is business".