Two protesters in their eighties have smashed the glass surrounding the Magna Carta in the British Library.
The two women used a mallet and chisel to crack the security glass that encases the historical artefact.Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, an active Anglican priest from Bristol, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired biology teacher from Swansea, entered the British Library at 10:40 this morning. After they smashed the glass, Reverend Parfitt and Mrs Bruce then glued their hands together, demanding an emergency plan to just stop oil by 2030.There are four surviving copies of the Magna Carta.
The British Library holds two and the others are held at Lincoln Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral.A Just Stop Oil Spokesperson said: “Clause 39 of the Magna Carta is one of four clauses still enshrined in UK common law, a so-called ‘golden passage’, that states: ‘No free man is to be arrested, or imprisoned, or in any other way ruined, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.
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