The statue of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the man behind a legal decree that defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonies, was defaced with …
The statue of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the man behind a legal decree that defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonies, was defaced with red paint in Paris on Tuesday.
Parliamentary sources told AFP that the statue outside France’s National Assembly was daubed in paint and bore the inscription «State negrophobia» on the pedestal.
