Activist Mwazulu Diyabanza Arrested After Attempting to Take Artifact from Louvre

Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza went to court today after being arrested for attempting to take an artifact from the Louvre in Paris. The Art Newspaper reports that the incident took place on October 22, and a video posted to Twitter shows Diyabanza in the museum saying, “I came here to take back what was stolen and plundered from us… to take back what was pillaged from Africa.”
ARTnews has reached out to the Louvre for comment.
Diyabanza was released from his hearing, an