The pedestal of the statue of the “Little Mermaid”, one of the symbols of Copenhagen and the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s famous fairy tale, was painted in the colors of the Russian tricolor on March 2. It has been reported TASS With reference to the local edition of Extra Bladet.
Police said there were no notifications to law enforcement that the monument was painted in the colors of the Russian flag.
The monument, made by Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen, was erected in 1913 in the coastal area of the Danish capital. The statue was donated to the city by the brewer Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of the Carlsberg brewery.
On the anniversary of the start of the special operation in Ukraine, earlier in Berlin established Russian tank was shot down in the Kyiv region. Berliners bring flowers to the tank in memory of the dead Russian tankers, but the police allow them to be destroyed.