The statue was covered in yellow this weekend in Pavilions-sous-Bois. Statue of General de Gaulle from Pavilions-Sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis,
The statue was covered in yellow this weekend in Pavilions-sous-Bois.
The statue of General de Gaulle from the Pavilion of Sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis and the commemorative plaque of the battle of Bir-Hakeim were vandalized and covered with yellow paint on the night from Friday to Saturday, reports the Huffington Post.
“I don’t know if it is related to the demonstrations that are going on in the country, and the déboulonnage of statues that are seen everywhere in the world, or if it is simply an act of a fool… but in any case, it is not acceptable,” she replied in Le To Parisien, the mayor of Pavilions-Sous-Bois, Katia Coppi.
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Several elected officials were also shocked by the damage. Picture of Eric Ciotti, who described the gesture as “unacceptable” and assured that “those who want to erase the history of France will find me, like the vast majority of French people, always in the way”.
The statue and plaque were quickly cleaned, and City Hall indicated that they had filed a complaint against X.
After the death of George Floyd and the protests against police violence that followed, monuments, allies were torn down and statues of Christopher Columbus were beheaded in the United States. In France, several statues of figures controversial because of their colonial or slave pasts have already been demoted.
Date of update: 15 June 2020, 04:58
Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: newstars.edu.vn