Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first girl Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown.
The life-size sculpture was unveiled in 2020 throughout President Donald Trump’s first time period close to Sevnica in central Slovenia, the place Melanija Knavs was born in 1970. It changed a picket statue that had been set on hearth earlier that 12 months.
Police spokeswoman Alenka Drenik Rangus mentioned Friday that the police had been knowledgeable in regards to the theft of the statue on Tuesday. She mentioned police had been working to trace down these accountable. In line with Slovenian media reviews, the bronze duplicate was sawed off on the ankles and eliminated.
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The unique picket statue was torched in July 2020. The country determine was reduce from the trunk of a linden tree, displaying her in a pale blue costume just like the one she wore at Mr. Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2017.
The unique statue met with combined opinions by locals, with one resident telling Reuters in 2019 that the Melania depicted within the sculpture “does not look as beautiful as she normally is,” whereas one other native instructed BBC Information it seemed like “Smurfette.” It had been carved out of a tree trunk by native chainsaw artist Ales Zupevc, BBC Information reported.
The duplicate bronze statue that changed it has no apparent resemblance with the primary girl.
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