Locals in a small Italian town want a statue of Vladimir Putin pulled down because of the horrific war in Ukraine. The marble statue of the Russian President was erected in a park in Tuscany in 2019.
Locals in a small Italian town want a statue of Vladimir Putin pulled down because of the horrific war inThe marble statue of the Russian President was erected in a park in the town of Vagli di Sotto in Lucca, Tuscany, in 2019.
It is part of a group of monuments to prominent people in our century which form a pathway of ‘honour’ and ‘dishonour’ without explicitly saying who represents what.But now, some residents and local mayor Bruno Murzi are calling for Putin’s statue to be pulled down ‘immediately’. Mr Murzi said he never supported ‘wasting’ taxpayer money on the statues in the first place but said it needs to be addressed ‘now more than ever’.
He told locals: ‘We cannot bear to have a monument on the municipal territory to the one who is waging a war in order to “annex” a country with the own independence, because that’s what it is.The statue was erected in the park in 2019, when the city was run by a different mayor Mr Murzi went on to speak about how Italy had already joined other western nations in condemning Russia and sanctioning the nation.
He argued it was important to ‘show closeness’ to the people of Ukraine with ‘condemning certain gestures’.in the wake of the devastation the Kremlin had wreaked on Ukraine.
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