New Zealand arrests 12 after museum exhibit defaced

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 11, 2023 4:00 pm

WELLINGTON: A dozen protesters from a Maori activist group were arrested at New Zealand's national museum on Monday after defacing an exhibit about the Treaty of Waitangi, the country's founding document.

Police said a man abseiled from above the exhibit at the Te Papa museum in the capital Wellington, before using an angle grinder and spray paint to damage a panel, which is several meters high.

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