Greenpeace activists have returned a wax figure of President Emmanuel Macron they had stolen from a Paris museum, staging a new stunt to protest against continuing "radioactive" ties between France and Russia despite the invasion of Ukraine.

The campaign group said the stunt involving the French head of state's waxwork doppelganger had the serious message of urging the real Macron to stop all economic cooperation with Russia, especially in nuclear energy.

After taking the waxwork from the Grevin Museum in a carefully planned heist on Monday, the campaigners had placed it outside the Russian embassy in a symbolic protest.

Carrying on the action late on Tuesday, they placed the waxwork, estimated to be worth 40,000 euros ($45,500), in a chest and put it outside the headquarters of French

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