A police officer (L) stands outside the Mauritshuis museum, where three people were arrested for attempting to smudge Vermeer's painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, currently exhibited there, in The Hague, Netherlands, 27 October 2022. They were wearing shirts from the Just Stop Oil campaign group, whose members are responsible for recent acts of vandalism – such as throwing soup at paintings, sports cars and luxury shop windows across Europe – in an attempt to raise awareness about their protest against fossil fuels. (Photo by Phil Nijhuis/EPA/EFE)
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