Netherlands jails activists who targeted Vermeer masterpiece

The Hague (AFP) Nov 2, 2022

A Dutch court Wednesday sentenced two climate activists to two months in jail, one of them suspended, for targeting Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring", news agency ANP said. Three men in their forties from neighbouring Belgium were arrested last week after the attack on the 1665 painting at the city's Mauritshuis museum to raise awareness about the future of the planet. Two