During a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol in 2020, several people overturned the statue of a slave trader and thrown it into the nearby harbor basin. Now comes the trial.
Bristol – Before a trial for the overthrow of a slave-owner statue in his hometown of Bristol, the British street artist Banksy assists the four defendants with a t-shirt campaign.
On the occasion of the trial, the anonymous artist wrote on Instagram on Friday evening that he designed some souvenir shirts, the entire proceeds of which went to the accused so that they could go for a beer. To this end, he provided pictures of the gray T-shirt, which shows the empty base of the slave-owner statue, surrounded by rubble, from which a rope hangs down. Above it is the name of the city where the shirts were to be sold in capital letters.
During a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol on June 7, 2020, several people overturned the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston (1636-1721) and threw it into the nearby harbor basin. The four demonstrators, aged between 21 and 36, are accused of property damage. You plead not guilty. The trial against her is due to begin on Monday in the city a good 180 kilometers west of London. dpa
