A life-size statue of Melania Trump has gone lacking from her hometown in Slovenia.
Police are investigating the disappearance of the bronze sculpture of the US first girl, which had changed a picket statue of her that had been set on fireplace.
The bronze creation was unveiled in 2020 within the city of Sevnica in central Slovenia, the place Ms Trump was born in 1970, throughout Donald Trump’s first time period in workplace.
Police spokesperson Alenka Drenik Rangus stated officers had been knowledgeable in regards to the theft of the statue on Tuesday and had been working to trace down these accountable.
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The ankles had been all that remained of the sawn-off statue. Pic: AP
An image confirmed the bronze sculpture had been sawn off on the ankles and eliminated.
The unique picket statue was reduce from the trunk of a linden tree and confirmed Ms Trump in a pale blue costume just like the one she wore to Mr Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2017.
It was unveiled in 2019 and set ablaze in July 2020.
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Melania Trump. Pic: AP
A person who works at a bakery in Sevnica that sells desserts with Ms Trump’s identify stated the stolen statue is not going to be missed.
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“I think no one was really proud at this statue, not even the first lady of the USA,” Franja Kranjc stated.
“So I think it’s OK that it’s removed.”
