'I am only interested in finding the attackers, and talking to them, not pressing charges against them. I would want to know who are they and why they did it.”
The first lady's statue was set on fire and badly scorched on the Fourth of July.As President Donald Trump has vowed to punish those who destroy monuments in the U.S., a wooden sculpture of American First LadyAuthorities don't know who torched the life-size statue, carved by local folk artist Aleš"Maxi" Župevc, or why it was burned.
“Police are investigating the circumstances of the arson incident in the village of Rozno,” Robert Perc, police spokesman in Novo Mesto, told ABC News. “The owner of the statue filed criminal charges against unknown arsonists.” FILE PHOTO: Life-size wooden sculpture of U.S. first lady Melania Trump is officially unveiled in Rozno, near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, July 5, 2019.
But another Sevnica resident told ABC News back in 2019, she liked the sculpture and its subject."She is our beauty, no matter what, even here. She looks like she just walked out of a beautiful naïve painting." The whole thing is very heavily damaged, Downey says. The blue part of the statue is more-less intact but the head has been blackened, the face is deeply burned and the back of the head is burned out like a huge hole. Luckily, he says, it was not structurally destroyed, making it possible to be removed.
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