A monkey walks on the ledge of a building at the Taj Mahal, India (illustration). - Kevin Frayer / AP / SIPA

The Indian authorities have planned a very specific protection device for the arrival of Donald Trump on February 24 and 25. To avoid attacks by monkeys, the police and security agents will be equipped with slingshots during the president's visit to the Taj Mahal.

Between 500 and 700 wild rhesus macaques live on the famous tourist site. The Indian government wants to avoid any incident during the very first official displacement of the American head of state in the country, reports The Independent .

"Disaster" if monkeys attack Trump

The Taj Mahal monkeys are indeed known to demonstrate a certain aggressiveness in their quest for food. Attacks by tourists are frequent. Two French people were bitten in May 2018. The same year, the monkeys entered a house and killed a 12-day-old baby there.

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Security guards will not necessarily have to use their locally made weapons. "The monkeys are afraid when they see us brandishing the slingshots and they run away," Taj Mahal security chief told Reuters last year.

"The terror [...] is so strong that women and children are afraid to go on the roofs of their houses, which have almost become the territory of the monkeys," said a resident quoted by India Today . "If a large group of monkeys like these attacks the entourage of Donald Trump, it will be a disaster."

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