AMSTERDAM – Two Belgian local weather change activists who final week focused the well-known Johannes Vermeer portray “Lady with a Pearl Earring” have been sentenced to 2 months in jail by the Dutch courtroom, of which one month was suspended.
To spotlight how seeing art work destroyed evokes the same feeling to seeing the planet destroyed, one activist glued his head to glass overlaying the world-famous portray at a museum in The Hague, although the art work was not broken, gallery workers mentioned.
“An art work hanging there for all, for all of us, to take pleasure in, has been smeared by defendants who felt their message took priority over all the pieces else,” the prosecutor mentioned.
The general public prosecutor had requested for 4 months of which two suspended, however the choose mentioned she didn't need her sentence to discourage different individuals to exhibit.
The 2 males went to trial via a fast-track judgment on prices of destruction and open violence towards the portray. A 3rd activist, who didn't agree with the trial being fast-tracked, will seem in courtroom on Friday.
All three are a part of the local weather group Simply Cease Oil Belgium, which isn't affiliated with Simply Cease Oil in Britain. Simply Cease Oil Belgium mentioned the decision was “ironic”.
“Isn’t it ironic that local weather activists who nonviolently oppose the mass slaughter of life on Earth are being condemned?”, the group mentioned in an electronic mail.
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