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2020, The Victor Schœlcher Memorial is tagged
Event
- has description | a une description
- On May 27, 2020, the Victor Schœlcher pedestal in Vieux-Habitants was tagged with a red pen or pencil: the word “RACISTE” was inscribed in very large vertical letters. Smaller inscriptions appear, such as “mascarade”, “pas de raciste comme symbole !!!!”.
- carried out by | réalisée par
- No one has claimed responsibility. The perpetrators have not been identified.
- took place at | a eu lieu dans
- Vieux-Habitants, Guadeloupe
- took place on or within | a eu lieu le ou dans l'intervalle de temps
- 27 May 2020
- was motivated by | le déplacement a été motivé par
- The damage takes place a few days after the destruction of statues of Joséphine de Beauharnais, Belun d'Esnambuc and Victor Schœlcher in Martinique, in the global context of the targeting of statues linked to the history of slavery and colonization in the wake of the Black Lives Matter mobilizations.
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Black Lives Matter (BLM)
- resulted in | a eu pour résultat
- The president of the Société des amis de Victor Schœlcher, Brigitte Rodes, took to the press to condemn the actions targeting the Schœlcher monuments in Basse-Terre and Vieux-Habitants, pointing out the differences between the Martinique and Guadeloupe contexts, notably the fact that the first deputy elected in Guadeloupe in 1848, Victor Schœlcher's running mate, was Louisy Mathieu, a black man and former slave.