Two statues were marked in red near the Marseille Saint-Charles train station on Tuesday night. The woman was arrested. two statues
Two statues were marked in red near the Marseille Saint-Charles train station on Tuesday night. The woman was arrested.
Two statues commemorating the colonies located at the foot of the Saint-Charles train station in Marseille were damaged Tuesday night, France Bleu Provence BFMTV reports.
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Characters representing one of the former colonies in Africa and another former colony in Asia are marked in red. There you could read “The colonized of Africa communicate with France” and “The colonized of Asia are not (sic) France.” Since then, the two statues have been cleaned.
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According to information from France Bleu Provence, ten people would be involved in these degradations. A thirty-year-old woman was taken into police custody.
In the midst of the protests, anti-racism in the world after the death of George Floyd during his arrest by an American police officer, monuments and statues related to the history of French colonialism or the slave trade have once again found themselves at the center of the controversy over historical memory.
Date updated: Jul 1, 2020 at 11:58
Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: newstars.edu.vn