The statue of a southern general during the Civil War (1861-1865), which had been tumbled and damaged in 2020 by demonstrators, will be restored and reinstalled in Washington. It was in a national park, which depends on the Trump administration.
Albert Pike (1809-1891), also a lawyer and writer, was the only military figure in the Confederate camp to have his monument in the capital of the United States.
The service of national parks “will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which had been overthrown and vandalized in riots in June 2020,” a statement said on Monday. She should find her place in a Washington park in October.
This “rehabilitation is one of the federal legal responsibilities in the preservation of the historical heritage and follows from the latest presidential decrees intended to embellish the capital and reinstall statues”, said the national parks, dependent on the administration of the American president Donald Trump.
Two decrees
The latter had made two decrees at the end of March “to make the Columbia district [Washington] Sure and magnificent “and” to restore truth and common sense in American history “.
The republican conservative billionaire, who completed his first mandate in June 2020, had qualified at the time the unlocking of the statue of Albert Pike as “shame for our country”. He had accused the capital of the capital, mostly democratic, of passivity.
In June 2020, demonstrators had put the monument to the ground using a rope and then tried to fire it by chanting the slogan of the African-American anti-racist movement “Black Lives Matter”.
This destruction had taken place at the end of gatherings and commemorations of the 155th anniversary of the “Juneteenth” (contraction in English of “June” and “nineteen”), dates from 1865 when the last slaves had been released in Texas and which has been, since the presidency of Barack Obama (2009-2017), a public holiday in the United States.
Many monuments erected to the glory of personalities from the Confederate camp during the Civil War had been demolished in the spring of 2020. A few days after the landing of the Pike statue, demonstrators had tried to do the same with that of the 7th American president Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), who supported slavery, and of which Donald Trump is a fervent admirer.
This article was published automatically. Sources: ATS / AFP
