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The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen vandalized, a Russian flag painted on its base

2023-03-02T11:11:32.789Z


Danish police announced that they had opened an investigation on Thursday, without mentioning any clues as to the origin of this apparent sign of support for Moscow in the midst of the war in Ukraine.


When they woke up, the inhabitants of Copenhagen had a funny surprise.

The Little Mermaid, an emblematic statue of the Danish capital, was tagged last night.

A flag was painted under unknown circumstances on the stone on which the statue of the heroine of storyteller Hans Christian Andersen is placed, located in the port of Copenhagen, noted an AFP

journalist

.

The Danish police have announced that they have opened an investigation, without mentioning any clues as to the origin of this apparent sign of support for Moscow in the midst of the war in Ukraine.

A few puzzled tourists were photographing the vandalized statue on Thursday morning, in bright sunshine.

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Located at the water's edge along a relatively isolated promenade, the bronze statue has been the target of regular damage of all kinds since its installation in 1913.

In 1964, she was beheaded for the first time, without her head ever being returned.

In 1998, vandals cut off his head again, then returned it, before the statue was the target of an explosion in 2003. It has been tagged or painted over numerous times, most recently in 2020 with the mysterious inscription "

Racist fish”

(

“racist fish”

).

Source: lefigaro

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