A topless activist from a feminist group has attempted to snatch a statue of baby Jesus from the Vatican’s Nativity scene.
The woman stormed the display in St Peter’s Square on Monday but was stopped by police as she grabbed the figurine.
Witnesses said the protester jumped over guard rails and rushed onto the larger-than-life Nativity scene shouting ‘God is woman’.
The protester, from the controversial Femen group, had the same slogan painted on her bare back during her storming of the Nativity.
A Vatican gendarme rushed after the woman – nearly tripping over on the steps leading up to the scene – before stopping her from taking the statue. The woman was then detained.
The incident happened just hours before Pope Francis delivered his Christmas message to 50,000 people in the same square.
The group’s website identified the protester as Alisa Vinogradova and called her a ‘sextremist’. It says the goal of the movement, which was founded in Ukraine, is ‘complete victory over patriarchy’.
A Femen activist staged a similar protest on Christmas Day 2014 but managed to take the statue out of the crib before she was arrested.
Earlier this month a woman from the group was arrested outside the Ukrainian parliament after stripping off to pose with a paddle and the words ‘row the f*** away’ scrawled over her body.
Her angry message was directed to Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko and his political opponent Mikheil Saakashvili.
Aleksandra Nemchinova, 36, said she was protesting against both men as they were ‘ruining the country.’
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