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Police officers in front of the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague
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After the protest in front of the world-famous painting by Johannes Vermeer »Girl with a Pearl Earring« in The Hague, the third climate activist has also been sentenced to two months in prison.
A month of the sentence was suspended on probation, as the court in The Hague ruled.
The glazed painting in the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, Netherlands, was not damaged in the action.
The Belgian-born man poured red dye over another climate activist in the Mauritshuis last week and then hand-glued himself to the wall behind the painting.
He had repented of the act before the judge.
His defense attorney announced an appeal against the verdict.
The other two men involved in the action had also been sentenced to two months in prison on Wednesday evening.
One of them appealed.
One of the men had his head glued to the glass of the frame.
The other had filmed the action.
The men belong to the climate protection movement "Just Stop Oil".
In the past few months, climate activists have organized a whole series of actions and blockades, some of which were aimed at famous works of art.
In London's National Gallery they showered Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece »Sunflowers« with tomato soup, in Potsdam activists threw mashed potatoes at a work by the impressionist Claude Monet.
In August, two activists glued themselves to a work by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the Berlin Picture Gallery and to the world-famous »Sistine Madonna« by Raphael in Dresden.
kfr/dpa
