The Little Mermaid of Copenhagen, Denmark's most famous monument and a tourist symbol of its capital, has been vandalized.
"Unknown person wrote on the on the plinth words "racist fish" in English. An investigation is underway, " the metropolitan police said.
As a result of the wave of protests against racism and police brutality in the United States, which followed the death of Afri-can-American George Floyd, monuments and statues in many countries of the world associated with colonial history have become the center of controversy, inciting racial and ethnic hatred.
Meanwhile, according to Ane Grum-Schwensen, a specialist in the work of the Dane Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote the fairy tale about the little mermaid, his work does not contain any racist hints at all.
The Copenhagen diva has been repeatedly vandalized: the statue's head was stolen twice, in 1964 and 1998, and in 1984 one of its arms was cut off.
In Denmark, several acts of vandalism have been committed in recent weeks, in particular, against statues of the Danish missionary Hans Egede, who participated in the colonization of Greenland in the XVIII century, and the Danish king Christian IV.
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