Topless Protester Tries to Steal Baby Jesus at Vatican
A topless adult female from an activist group tried to escape with a baby Jesus statue at the Vatican on Christmas Day.
According to Euronews, the topless woman is from the feminist group Femen who "considers the anti-state of war policy of the Vatican a rough medieval assault on the freedom of women and their natural rights."
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A Reuters lensman witnessed the woman jumping over the track to snatch the statue in St. Peter's Square on Monday most two hours earlier Pope Francis delivered his Christmas message to a oversupply of people. The photographer says that she ran into the nascence scene shouting "God is woman," which was also painted on her dorsum.
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NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesReuters reported that the Vatican constabulary stopped her before she could escape with the baby Jesus statue, yet The Femen website stated, "FEMEN sextremist Alisa Vinogradova has kidnapped the papal doll of the babe Christ from the Vatican Christmas nativity scene in the foursquare of St. Peter in Vatican."
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