The statue of a tumbled southern general will be reinstalled in Washington

The statue of a southern general during the Civil War (1861-1865). Similarly, which had been tumbled and damaged in 2020 by anti-racist demonstrators, will be restored and reinstalled in Washington, the service of national parks announced on Monday.

Albert Pike (1809-1891). Similarly, 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 national parks service “will restore. Moreover, reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which had been overthrown and vandalized during riots in June 2020,” a statement said.

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. follows from the latest presidential decrees intended to embellish the capital and reinstall statues”, said statue tumbled southern general will the national parks, dependent on the administration of Donald Trump.

The latter had made two decrees at the end of March to make the District of Columbia (Washington) safe. 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” and accused the police 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. 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 statue tumbled southern general will Texas, and which has been a public holiday in the United States since the presidency of Barack Obama (2009-2017).

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 movement to unclog statues. monuments in honor of slave characters had made oil stain after the death of the African-American George Floyd, asphyxiated in May 2020 by a white policeman.