Denmark’s Little Mermaid Statue Defaced With Russian Colors
THE NERVE
The rock on which the tourist attraction sits was painted with stripes of white, blue, and red.
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Denmark’s iconic Little Mermaid statue—which draws tourists from around the work to a harbor in Copenhagen—was defaced with a painting of the Russian flag. The rock on which the figure sculpted by Edvard Eriksen sits was apparently vandalized in the early morning hours of Thursday—the latest of a series of attacks on the statue, which once had its head chopped off.
