Girl with a Pearl Earring attacked

Climate activists targeted Dutch master Johannes Vermeer’s famed ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ at a museum in The Hague, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported on Thursday, but the artwork was apparently not damaged.Dutch police said three arrests had been made at a museum, but provided no details.The artwork at the Mauritshuis in The Hague was not believed to be damaged, Dutch news agency ANP reported.Video circulating on social media appears to show two men in Just Stop Oil T-shirts gluing their hands to the wall next the the painting. One appears to be trying to glue his forehead to it.The men aqre led away by police in apparent footage of the incidentIn the footage, one man says: ‘How do you feel when you see something beautiful and priceless being apparently destroyed?’Where is that feeling when you see the planet being destroyed before our very eyes?’A number of museum patrons appear to heckle the men, with one calling the pair ‘stupid’ and ‘obscene’.Two weeks ago activists threw tomato soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece ‘Sunflowers’ at the National Gallery in London.Two women wearing ‘Just Stop Oil’ T-shirts entered a gallery room in Trafalgar Square at about 11am on Friday October 14 and threw two tins of Heinz at the painting, before glueing their hands to the wall.The painting, which has an estimated value of £72.5m and is made from oil on canvas, is protected by a glass cover.One of the activists, Phoebe Plummer, 21, shouted: ‘What is worth more, art or life? Is it worth more than food? More than justice?’Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting, or the protection of our planet and people?’And three days ago four people arrested after Just Stop Oil protesters threw cake over King Charles III’s waxwork statue at Madame Tussauds.This story is breaking and will be updated as news comes in.