LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first woman 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 in workplace close to Sevnica in central Slovenia, the place Melanija Knavs was born in 1970. It changed a picket statue that had been set on fireplace earlier that yr.
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 response to Slovenian media reviews, the bronze reproduction was sawed off on the ankles and eliminated.
Franja Kranjc, who works at a bakery in Sevnica that sells desserts with Melania Trump’s title in help of the primary woman, mentioned the stolen statue gained’t be missed.
“I feel nobody was actually proud at this statue, not even the primary woman of the USA,” he mentioned. “So I feel its OK that it’s eliminated.”
The unique picket statue was torched in July 2020. The country determine was minimize from the trunk of a linden tree, displaying her in a pale blue gown just like the one she wore at Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2017. The reproduction bronze statue has no apparent resemblance with the primary woman.