The work entitled “Passage Abdelkader”, which represents the Emir Abdelkader cut in a rusty steel sheet, has been largely damaged at the lower part of the structure.
by Le Monde with AFP
This act of vandalism has been strongly denounced by elected officials on site. The sculpture in tribute to the emir Abdelkader (1808-1883) was degraded in the night before his inauguration Saturday in Amboise, saw a journalist from the world on site. It is in this municipality of Indre-et-Loire that the Algerian national hero had been detained with several members of his family from 1848 to 1852.
The work entitled Passage Abdelkader, which represents the Emir Abdelkader cut into a rusty steel sheet, has been largely damaged at the lower part of the structure.
# FranceAlgérie. In Amboise, the steel statue representing the Emir Abdelkader damaged in the night before his inau … https://t.co/dd6ln3oxvb
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” The fight for friendship between France and Algeria continues “
On the spot, the mayor of Amboise, Thierry Tounard, denounced a “ignoble ransack” in a “period when some people are complained in the hatred of others”
Present at the ceremony and recently increed in Paris after the crisis open through the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the Algerian Ambassador to France, Mohamed Antar Daoud reacted on a tone of appeasement. “The fight for friendship between France and Algeria continues, to make the Mediterranean not a lake of divisions but a shared lake. It will have to be painted the injury of what is only an act of vandalism. “
were also present Saturday morning for the inauguration, the sculptor Michel Audiard, Senator Lr Isabelle Raimond-Pavero, MP LRM Daniel Labaronne, as well as President LR of the County Council, Jean-Gérard Pémier.