Greenpeace returns stolen Macron wax statue — after one more protest

The stolen wax statue of Emmanuel Macron was recovered by police — after reappearing in the wild at one last protest.

Filched from Paris’ famed Grévin Museum by Greenpeace activists on Monday, the French president’s likeness was initially displayed in front of the Russian embassy to protest France’s economic and business ties with Moscow before it was carried off to an unknown location.

Now it is in police custody after Greenpeace left it at the headquarters of French energy giant EDF on Tuesday night to protest France’s imports of Russian energy.

Jean-François Julliard, director-general of Greenpeace France, told POLITICO the group dropped it off at EDF headquarters and then notified the authorities and the museum to come pick it up. Julliard said two Greenpeace employees were in police custody Wednesday.

Greenpeace claimed responsibility for the theft after the statue went missing Monday, claiming they were simply borrowing it.

Though the European Union has cut down on business with the Kremlin since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it still buys Russian gas and other energy products, with France one of Europe’s biggest importers of Russian liquified natural gas.