The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen has been defaced with a Russian flag painted onto its base.
One among Denmark’s most notable landmarks and high vacationer attraction was attacked someday on Thursday (2 March), with police calling it “a case of vandalism”.
The pink, white and blue stripes have been daubed throughout the stone that the Hans Christian Andersen heroine sits upon.
Copenhagen police say they’ve attended the scene and have opened an investigation into the incident, which is seen as an indication of help for Russia within the conflict in Ukraine.
Denmark has been a vocal critic of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which lately marked its one yr anniversary. It’s unclear who's chargeable for the assault on the inventive icon and quite a lot of puzzled vacationers have been seen taking images of the monument.
The Little Mermaid statue, which was impressed by the title character of Danish writer Andersen’s fairytale, is celebrating its one hundred and tenth anniversary. It was unveiled by sculptor Edvard Eriksen in 1913 after a fee from the son of Carlsberg founder Carl Jacobsen, who was a fan of a ballet model of the mermaid story.
Though the bronze weighs a reasonably hefty 175kg (385lb), it has been vandalised quite a few instances, together with being the sufferer of two beheadings. It has additionally had its arm reduce off, been coated in paint and slogans to lift consciousness of whaling within the Faroe Islands, the Hong Kong protests and the Black Lives Matter motion.
In 2003, The Little Mermaid was blown off its base with explosives and later present in surrounding waters.
The Russian flag vandalism in Copenhagen isn’t the primary time activists have proven help for the nation of their battle with Ukraine.
In March final yr, gravestones within the city of Ripon within the north of England have been graffitied with a ‘Z’ image, seen as a pro-war Russian image of the invasion. In April 2022, an iconic street in Northern Eire was an identical goal. The tree-lined avenue Darkish Hedges in County Antrim, which featured in Recreation of Thrones and 2017’s Transformers: The Final Knight was additionally daubed with a ‘Z’ alongside the phrase ‘glory to Russia’. No culprits for both act of vandalism have ever been tracked down.
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