VIDEO: Putin ousted ... at Paris waxwork museum
Today, there’s a gap where Russian President Vladimir Putin once stood among world leaders at a waxwork museum in Paris.
The mannequin has been removed from the Grévin wax museum in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and has been placed in indefinite storage.
“Recent events mean we don’t want him here,” museum director Yves Delhommeau, told AFP. “The staff don’t want to walk past him every day.
“He was attacked a few times at the weekend and we received a few threats on the phone, so it was better to remove him from the world leaders’ section.”
The waxwork, which once stood between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, has been attacked before. It still bears the scars of a ‘stabbing’ by Femen activists in 2015.
“It’s the first time the Grevin museum has removed a waxwork, like this, so quickly, for historical reasons, immediately,” Delhommeau added, before suggesting that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky could be a candidate to replace him in the museum.
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The mannequin has been removed from the Grévin wax museum in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and has been placed in indefinite storage.
“Recent events mean we don’t want him here,” museum director Yves Delhommeau, told AFP. “The staff don’t want to walk past him every day.
“He was attacked a few times at the weekend and we received a few threats on the phone, so it was better to remove him from the world leaders’ section.”
The waxwork, which once stood between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, has been attacked before. It still bears the scars of a ‘stabbing’ by Femen activists in 2015.
“It’s the first time the Grevin museum has removed a waxwork, like this, so quickly, for historical reasons, immediately,” Delhommeau added, before suggesting that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky could be a candidate to replace him in the museum.
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