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Trial begins for man who defaced Colbert statue in Paris court Africanews 5 days ago © AP Photo
Trial begins for a man accused of covering in graffiti a statue that honors Jean-Baptiste Colbert in Paris on Monday.
Colbert was a 17th century royal minister who wrote rules governing slaves in France s overseas colonies.
As he arrived for trial, Franco Lollia, an activist from a group called the Anti-Negrophobia Brigade, told journalists that Colbert is a major figure of the colonial past. Racial discrimination, especially against black people - even though there is some racial discrimination against others - those about negrophobia, come from the colonial past and Colbert is a major figure of this colonial past, this past where black people were not recognized as human beings , he said.
A French activist for black rights has gone on trial in Paris for defacing a statue of a historical figure from France’s colonial, slave-trading past, calling the protest a political act to denounce deep-seated racism.
Franco Lollia is on trial for spraying “state Negrophobia” in red paint on the pedestal of a statue outside parliament in Paris last June.
The statue honours Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a 17th-century royal minister who wrote rules governing slaves in France’s overseas colonies.
Lollia told the court that, in his view, Colbert committed crimes against humanity.
A worker from Paris’s City Hall cleans the statue of Jean-Baptiste Colbert in June 2020 (Thibault Camus/AP)