Climate activist group Just Stop Oil said the building was sprayed in 'an act of civil resistance'.
A clean up operation is underway after Just Stop Oil protesters sprayed orange paint over the University of Oxford's iconic Radcliffe Camera building.
The students, armed with buckets of paint and spray cans targeted buildings at Oxford and Exeter universities at around midday on Tuesday, in what the group describes as "resistance against the UK Government’s plans to licence new oil and gas projects." "Students are demanding that university leaders make a public statement calling on the government to end new oil and gas projects, and make a commitment to join their students in marching on the streets of London, if the government fails to respond."The Radcliffe Camera is an iconic Oxford landmark and is also a working library.
"The University does not support illegal action, including any unlawful protesting, and may, within its powers, take any steps it considers appropriate against any student guilty of such behaviour. Access to the library has been temporarily redirected and steps are under way to remove the paint."A spokesperson for the Bodleian Library said: "Earlier today, the Radcliffe Camera was defaced with spray paint, during a Just Stop Oil protest.
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