FRANCE COLBERT ROW: STATUE VANDALISED OVER SLAVERY CODE
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25.06.2020


BBC (24 June 2020)

 

An activist has vandalised the statue of a French statesman outside the country's parliament.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert helped write the Code Noir or Black Code in the 17th Century which defined slavery and race in France's colonial empire.

Footage posted on social media shows the activist spraying Colbert's statue with red paint on Tuesday.

 

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