Two Just Stop Oil activists were charged Thursday in connection with the spraying of orange powder on iconic English monument Stonehenge.
Rajan Naidu, 73, and Niamh Lynch, 20, were charged with “destroying or damaging an ancient protected monument, and intentionally or recklessly causing a public nuisance,” Wiltshire police said in a statement.
The two will appear at Salisbury Magistrates’ Court on Dec. 13 for a first hearing.
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In June, the two activists rushed the historic site in England with fire extinguishers loaded with orange-dyed corn flour. The campaigners sprayed several of the stone towers before they sat cross-legged in matching “Just Stop Oil” T-shirts at the monument’s base.
