The first statue had been burned by strangers, the news disappeared: a bronze work with the image of the first lady of the United States, Melania Trump was stolen in her native Slovenia.
“The incident was reported on Tuesday. The Police immediately went to the scene and an investigation was opened” to find the culprit, said a police spokesman on Thursday, May 15.
The author of the statue says he is “sad”
The size of life and perched on a trunk of trees in the middle of a private field, near Sevnica, a city in the east where Melania Trump passed her childhood, this statue presented in 2020 presented her hand, a gesture inspired by the pose of the presidential couple during the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017.
Its author, the American conceptual artist Brad Downey, had wanted to make him a “non -monument, counterpropaganda”, explaining that he wanted to criticize the policy of the white house tenant, remembering that his own wife, born Melania Knavs in Yugoslavia, is an immigrant.
He said he was “sad” for the disappearance of work, for solidly linked to the trunk by concrete and iron bars, which forced thieves to cut it over the ankles.
“I have the feeling that he has a report” with the return of the billionaire in power, “but who knows?” He told AFP.
An anterior statue, which represents the old mannequin with his famous blue sky dress, had been reduced to ashes in July 2020. Approximately carved with a chainsaw in a tree trunk and compared to a frightening birds, his image had gone around the world.
The discreet “First Lady” Melania Trump, 55, has never honored the city, located about 90 kilometers from the capital, Slovena Ljubljana, of a visit.
He had left his native country for two million inhabitants before the end of communism and landed in the striking New York of the 1990s to continue his career. Naturalized American in 2016, is Donald Trump’s third wife, with whom he had a son, Barron, who speaks Slovenian.
If the first mandate of the Republican had aroused great hope in Sevnica, where the stamped products “Melania Trump” have flourished, the second arouse indifference, even hostility, before the commercial war launched by Washington against the EU.
Source: BFM TV
