The security personnel immediately escorted her down the stairs
A woman dressed in the colors of the Ukrainian flag protested on Sunday on the red carpet of the 76th Cannes Film Festival. The protester poured fake blood on herself on the steps of the Palais des Festivals during the screening of French film director Just Philippot’s film ‘Acide’ before being removed by security personnel.
The woman in a yellow and blue dress with blue heels appeared to reach into her dress and pull out two capsules of red paint, before releasing them over her head as she smiled for the cameras.
Security personnel immediately escorted her down the stairs and removed her from the event.
According to a report by TelegraphCannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux said last week before the event started, expressing solidarity with Ukraine.
During the opening ceremony of the festival, French actress Catherine Deneuve paid tribute to the victims of the war by reciting the poem Hope by Lesya Ukrainka, the Ukrainian poetess.
The ban on Russian delegations or film companies associated with the Russian government remains in place at this year’s festival, having been introduced last year, Telegraph reported.
Last year at the festival, a Ukrainian woman protested the Russian armed forces on the red carpet by stripping naked and revealing the message “Stop raping us” written in body paint on her chest against a blue and yellow flag.
