The memorial work has never been so talked about in recent days in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis). The stele in tribute to the victims of slavery, inaugurated on May 23, 2013, disappeared from public space on March 30. This spherical metal sculpture, decorated with medallions on which the names of the 213 slaves are inscribed - representing the 213 years of slavery - is to be reinstalled 25 meters away, Place Robert-de-Cotte, during a ceremony on May 23, after restoration work.
But his kidnapping on the sly does not happen. Particularly within the March of May 23, 1998 (CM98) committee, founded by descendants of victims, which commissioned and financed this fresco before symbolically handing it over to the City (then communist), which has been responsible for its maintenance ever since.
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