140 years after France You will give you the Statue of Liberty to the United Statesthe French central-left legislator Raphaël Glucksmann claimed that they should return the present, by pointing out that the American country “despises it” and that it will be “better at home.”
The legislator’s approach arrived in a growing tension between United States and Europe before the change of position of the administration of Donald Trump against the conflict in Ukraine. In turn, he questioned the cuts Budgets that affected universities and research centers.
“We are going to tell the Americans who have chosen to stand on the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Return us the statue of liberty’“He said.
In that sense, he added: “We give it to you, But it seems that you despise her. So he will be better back at home, ”he added, according to the newspaper Le Monde.
Regarding the cuts in science, Glucksmann He launched from his bank: “If you want to fire their best researchers, all people who, with their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste for curiosity and research, have made the US the first world power, Then we will welcome you here”
The legislator emphasized that the policies of the American administration represent a Change in the values that the United States used to represent as freedom of thought, respect for knowledge and intellectual openness. That is why he considered that the symbol that represents the statue of freedom can no longer be reflected in the North American country.
The history of the arrival of the Statue of Liberty to the United States
On July 4, 1884, France, as a gesture of friendship between the two nations, formally delivered in Paris the statue of freedom, a symbol precisely of freedom, justice and democracy. It was conceived by the French politic
The official inauguration was in the port of New York in 1886, by the centenary of the United States Declaration of Independence.
In response to the French gesture, in 1889 the United States donated to France a smaller replica, which is still located on the island Allée Des Cygnes, on the Sena River.
Source: Ambito
