Trio charged over ‘blood’, G-string stunt at Louis Vuitton store

A woman and two men have been accused of staging an animal rights protest at a Louis Vuitton store, using ‘menstrual blood’ and a G-string.

A woman who allegedly stormed a luxury boutique wearing just a G-string and smeared in ‘menstrual blood’ to protest animal rights abuses has been charged.

Serial activist Tash Peterson posted video and images of the incident at the Louis Vuitton store in Perth on social media, writing that the protest symbolised “the bloodshed of the animal holocaust and the engrained (sic) anthropocentrism in our society”.

“I am using my blood, my body, my voice and my human privilege to speak up for the non-human animals who are so oppressed they are not even considered to be victims,” she wrote on Instagram.

On Saturday, WA Police said a 27-year-old woman from Bicton had been charged with disorderly behaviour in a public place, along with her two alleged accomplices, a 22-year-old man from Kewdale and a 27-year-old man from West Perth.

Tash Peterson inside a Melbourne Coles last month. Picture: Instagram

Police allege the incident unfolded at a fashion store last Saturday.

“It is alleged around 2pm, a female vegan protester who was partially clothed and covered in a dried red substance which she purported was her own blood, entered the store located at Raine Square,” WA Police said in a statement.

“During this time the woman was in close proximity to adults and young children.

“It is further alleged two men accompanied the woman and filmed her protest, uploading the vision online.”

The trio are set to face Perth Magistrates Court next month.