Two Greenpeace activists who removed French President Emmanuel Macron’s waxwork from a Paris museum to stage anti-Russia protests were on Thursday charged with aggravated theft, their lawyer said.

A wax statue of French President Emmanuel Macron was stolen by Greenpeace activists from a museum in Paris, in move aimed at highlighting business deals between the country and Russia.

Greenpeace activists took a statue of French President Emmanuel Macron and placed it outside the Russian embassy in Paris on Monday to protest continued business ties between the two countries, as ...

They stood the statue on its feet and put next to it a sign reading "Putin-Macron radioactive allies". The waxwork, estimated to be worth 40,000 euros ($45,500), was handed over to police on ...