A headless body. This was discovered on Wednesday morning by several walkers in a park in Boston (United States), passing in front of the statue of Christopher Columbus. The figure of the Italian explorer was indeed vandalized by decapitation. For several days, other statues representing the Genoese navigator have also been targeted by demonstrators. Tagged in red with the initials of Black Lives Matter in Miami, unbolted then thrown into a lake in Richmond in Virginia, overturned and trampled on in Saint-Paul in Minnesota…
Contested already for several years in the United States, the image of the one who "discovered America" is more considered there as that responsible for the genocide of the Amerindians and the natives. "I think it's a good thing," explains a jogger who was walking past the damaged monument. Like the blacks of this country, the natives were mistreated. This movement of Black Lives Matter which shakes the country today is powerful and this decapitation is very symbolic ”.
A movement that attacks elsewhere in the world all the symbols of a slavery and racist past. This is particularly the case in Great Britain and Belgium, where statues of colonial figures have been vandalized in recent days.
