The first statue had been burned by strangers, the new one mysteriously disappeared: a bronze work depicting the first USA of the US stole in her hometown, her.
“The authorities were informed on Tuesday. Officers immediately rushed to the spot and one investigation began “to find the culprit, a police spokesman told the French News Agency (AFP) today.
In a natural size and balancing on a tree trunk, this statue depicts it greeting it, a move that the artist was inspired by the US Presidential Couple at Donald Trump’s swearing -in ceremony in 2017. Trump spent her childhood years.
A bronze statue of first lady Melania Trump was unveiled near her hometown in Slovenia Tuesday (9/15). It replaces the original wooden one that was set on fire in July.
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Its creator, American conceptual artist Brad Downey, wanted to make it a “non-monument, an anti-propaganda”, explaining that he was aiming to condemn the White House tenant’s policy, recalling that his wife was also named.
He expressed his “sadness” for the disappearance of the work, which was firmly based on the trunk of the tree with the help of concrete and iron bars, forcing the thieves to cut it to the spot above the ankles.
“I have the feeling that this is related to the return of the billionaire to power,” But who knows? “He told the French Agency.
A previous statue, depicting the former model with its famous blue t -shirt, had become ashes in July 2020.
WATCH: The burnt sculpture of first lady Melania Trump, which was set on fire on July 4, is now on display at an art gallery in Slovenia.
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Carved with a chainsaw on a tree trunk, referring to a scarecrow, the photo of the statue had made the world round and had caused a variety of comments.
The discreet “First Lady” Melania Trump, aged 55, has never honored the city with her presence, 90 kilometers from the capital of Slovenia Ljubljana.
She left her hometown, which has a population of two million, before the end of communism and went to the glittering New York in the 1990s to continue her career. He gained American citizenship in 2016 and is Donald Trump’s third wife, with whom he had a son, Baron, who speaks Slovenika.
Although Republican’s first term caused feelings of hope in Servitsa, where the “Melania Trump” products were thriving, his second term was probably accepted with indifference, or even hostility, in front of the trade war that the Washington began.
