Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first girl Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown.
The life-size sculpture was unveiled in 2020 throughout President Donald Trump’s first time period close to Sevnica in central Slovenia, the place Melanija Knavs was born in 1970. It changed a wood statue that had been set on hearth earlier that 12 months.
Police spokeswoman Alenka Drenik Rangus mentioned Friday that the police had been knowledgeable in regards to the theft of the statue on Tuesday. She mentioned police had been working to trace down these accountable. Based on Slovenian media experiences, the bronze duplicate was sawed off on the ankles and eliminated.
The ankles of a sawed-off and taken-away bronze statue that represented Melania Trump stay on the tree stump the place it was positioned in 2020, within the village of Rozno, Slovenia, Might 16, 2025, close to Melania Trump’s hometown of Sevnica.
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The unique wood statue was torched in July 2020. The country determine was minimize from the trunk of a linden tree, exhibiting her in a pale blue gown just like the one she wore at Mr. Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2017.
The duplicate bronze statue that changed it has no apparent resemblance with the primary girl.
A bronze sculpture representing Melania Trump stands on a financial institution of the Sava river within the village of Rozno, close to her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, Nov. 6, 2024.
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