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Denmark’s Little Mermaid Statue Defaced With Russian Colors

The rock on which the tourist attraction sits was painted with stripes of white, blue, and red.

Denmark’s Little Mermaid sculpture defaced with the colors of the Russian flag.

Ida Marie Odgaard/Reuters

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.

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