While promising to fight racism and discrimination, France will not tear down any statues, whatever backgrounds they have, President Emmanuel Macron pledged. Erasing history equals “denying who we are,” he said.
The French Republic “will not erase any trace, or any name, from its history,” Macron stated in a televised address. France “will not take down any statue,” he said, perhaps in reference to the neighboring UK or Belgium, where statues connected to slavery or colonial rule have been pulled down or defaced.
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