Charges of damaging Stonehenge have been brought against the two environmental activists arrested in June who, as a sign of protest, sprayed paint on the prehistoric megalithic monument in southern England, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service announced today, quoted by Reuters.
Seventy-three-year-old Rajan Naidu and 22-year-old Niu Lynch will appear in court on December 13, the prosecutor’s office said, from where they authorized police to lay the charges.
The police, in turn, announced that the two members of the environmental protection organization ”Just Stop Oil” (Just Stop Oil) were also charged under a paragraph for destroying or damaging a protected cultural monument and for disturbing public order.
Stonehenge was open to the public until 1977, when a fence was placed around it because of the risk of damage due to the increased influx of tourists, Reuters noted, noting the growing activism of Just Stop the Oil environmentalists who have disrupted cultural and sporting events.