“Give us the Statue of Freedom,” appealed French Euro-Parliamentarian Raphael Glucksmann. According to politics, the U.S. attitude towards the war in Ukraine and the regulation of academic freedom makes the country no longer embody the values that prompted Paris to hand over the monument to them.
During the Sunday organization legislature Place Publique, its president Raphael Glucksmann in harsh words, he criticized the United States for the fact that the president of the United States was seeking to limit aid to Kiev, recognizing it as a betrayal of the fundamental values of American politics. He besides criticized the dismissal of scientists for demonstrations in the name of academic freedom.
– We're going to tell the Americans who have chosen to side with tyrants who release scientists for exercising their technological freedom: Give us the Statue of Liberty. said the politician quoted by "Le Figaro".
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He felt that the United States did not appreciate the gift from Paris, which was to be a symbol of freedom. We gave it to you, but you despise it. So she'll look large here at home said 1500 activists present in the room.
French politician demands return the Statue of Liberty
Glucksmann besides presented A proposal for American scientistswho, in his opinion, were expelled due to their "freedom and sense of innovation, their love of uncertainty and research".
– If you want to fire your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who made your country the world's leading power, well, We'll welcome them with open arms – declared.
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The politician besides called for "democratic resistance‘to argue what he considers to be Trump and Muska fanclubs’ in France, thus defining the utmost right.
Statue of Liberty. A motion of relationship between the US and France
France has given the United States the Statue of Liberty in 1886 as a sign of friendship between 2 countries and the 100th anniversary of the independency of the United States.
The monument was created by the Frenchman Auguste Bartholdi. It was produced in France and then stripped to pieces and sent by ship to fresh York City, where it was recommissioned. The tallness of the statue from the ground to the tip of the torch is 93 metres, and from the top of the postument to the torch is 46 meters.
