Removing Trump statue from the "Griffan Wax Museum" in Paris
The Griffan Museum of Wax Statues in Paris pulled out the statue of outgoing US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, without waiting for the remaining few hours before the inauguration of his successor, Joe Biden, in the White House, an AFP correspondent said.
The wax statue resembling Donald Trump was removed to the point of congruence, from its display platform and transferred to the museum archives in a secret warehouse on the outskirts of the French capital that housed statues of about a thousand historical or contemporary figures who were absent from the forefront of global attention.
"We will keep a statue of Donald Trump for some time," the director of the museum, which has been closed since October due to the health crisis, Yves Dolomo, told AFP sarcastically.
We might have a chance to use it as a monster during Halloween celebrations. ”
The removal of the statue created a relief for those in charge of the site, as one of the employees of the museum's workshop said, "It was like hell."
Every week, we had to correct the shape of the nostrils because visitors used to take pictures of themselves with a finger in the nose — the Trump statue.
The statues of many personalities that were a target for visitors in the past, including in 1983 the statue of former French President Jacques Chirac, who was then the leader of the right, as a group of young men pulled it from the place.
Since Joe Biden was declared winning the US presidential election, one of the sculptors in the Griffan Museum has been working on making a wax statue of the new US president, which is expected to be completed within two months.
"We hope to reopen our doors as soon as the health situation permits," the museum director said, while the site is still in the longest closing period since its inception in 1882.
The Griffan Museum usually attracts around 700,000 visitors annually.
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