The death of African-American George Floyd has revived the debate on the violence of Belgian colonization in the Congo and the responsibility of King Leopold II, whose statues are the target of the anger of anti-racist activists.
In Antwerp in the North, one of these statues was removed from a square to be transported to the reserves of a museum. what to do with the colossal colonial heritage present in many cities? In a few days, a petition for the removal of the statues of Leopold II in Brussels gathered tens of thousands of signatures and two of these monuments have already been removed. Léopold II, it is this king strongly criticized for the mode set up in Congo during colonization. But some prefer to withdraw a contextualization of the works. Report in Brussels.
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