The “Little Mermaid” statue in Copenhagen, the city’s most famous monument, was doused in red paint on Tuesday by animal rights activists outraged over whaling, police said. “Danmark (sic), defend the whales of the Faroe Islands” was spray painted on the pavement in front of the monument. Copenhagen police confirmed the incident on Twitter, writing “The Little Mermaid was targeted by vandalism. The Little Mermaid, inspired by a character in Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fairytale of the same name, is a 175-kilogram (385-pound) statue by Edvard Eriksen. Denmark loaned the statue, which attracts around one million visitors per year, to China for the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai.

Source: Egypt Independent May 30, 2017 12:45 UTC