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• 2006, Inauguration of the bust of Charles de Gaulle, Haumont
• 2007, (Operation) Truth 2007
• 2007, Brick Lane Circle organises a conference on the Battle of Plassey
• 2007, Inauguration du monument à la Mulâtresse Solitude.
  2007, Inauguration of the monument to Mulâtresse Solitude.
• 2007, The bust of Christopher Columbus is installed on the Boieldieu bridge in Rouen.
  In 2007, ten busts of “Great Navigators” were installed on the Boieldieu Bridge in Rouen. These busts are bronze models of the sculptures created by the sculptor for the 1999 Armada du siècle and the 2003 Armada. They are financed by ten public institutions and private companies: Caisse des Dépôts, Quille, Ferrero, Dalkia nord, CIC Banque BSD CIN, Lubrizol, Ressorts Masselin, Matmut, Port Autonome de Rouen, HAROPA Ports de Paris Seine-Normandie, Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.
• 2007, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen speaks at a London event marking the 250th anniversary of Plassey
  In 2007, new Cambridge IGCSEs in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh studies were launched at an event in City Hall, London, organised by Councillor Murad Qureshi to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Plassey. Prof. Amartya Sen spoke about the possibility of using education to tackle the rise of extremism in South Asian communities.
• 2007, Opening of the London, Sugar and Slavery Gallery
• 2007, Retrait temporaire du buste d'Ernest Deproge
  Retrait temporaire pendant la construction du centre commercial Perrinon
• 2007, Shrouding of the Robert Milligan statue
  In November 2007, the statue of Robert Milligan was shrouded on the opening day of the London, Sugar & Slavery Gallery at the Museum of London Docklands. The statue was concealed beneath a black shroud, bound with thick, black rope and floodlit, as an act of protesting its presence. Harry Cumberbatch, a member of a consultative committee working with the Museum at the time, took the accompanying photograph of the shrouded statue in order to preserve its message of resistance.
• 2007, Statue of Siraj ud daula installed in Plassey
  On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Plassey, a bust of Siraj ud daula is installed in front of the obelisk set up by Lord Curzon in the battlefield of Plassey
• 2007, The statue of Alexander Taylor is placed into storage
• 2007, Voile noir et fleurs sur la statue de Mangin, Paris
  Tribute to the mutinous soldiers of 1917 organized by the ecologist party Les Verts. Statement by Denis Baupin, leader of Les Verts for the next municipal elections, "Parisian memory must no longer be hemiplegic and must also pay tribute to those who opposed war and its ravages".
• 2008, Creation of the Bristol Legacy Commission
• 2008, Panneau présentant la statue du général Leclerc
  The panel explains the history of the statue and its location. It also indicates that General Leclerc was sent to "pacify" Haiti in 1802.
• 2008, Unveiling of The Trooper statue at Hatfield House
• 2009, le buste de Félix Eboué est coiffé d'un cône de signalisation
  Without it being possible to establish a link in the absence of a claim, it is worth noting that this act took place in the year following the powerful protest and strike movement (44 days) against the high cost of living and “pwofitasion”.
• 2009, Statue of Belain d'Esnambuc replaced on its refurbished plinth
  La statue de Belain d'Esnambuc est replacée sur son socle refait à neuf dans le cadre des travaux de la Savane.
• 2010, Brick Lane Circle organises its second conference on the Battle of Plassey
• 2010, Creation of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
• 2010, Request for removal of Olry statue from public space
  In a letter addressed to the President of the Republic, Odile Veillerette calls for the Olry statue to be "removed from the Place des Cocotiers and placed in a museum ... for educational purposes! She has set up an online petition, while pointing out that "paper petitions are also being circulated locally".
• 2010, Déplacement du monument aux morts de Saint-Gaudens
  Il est installé à côté du monument aux 3 maréchaux
• 2010, Dissolution of the Bristol Legacy Commission
• 2010, Graffitis on Marchand Monument, Paris
  "Mayotte is not for sale, Mayotte is Comorian".
• 2010, Inauguration of Césaire bust in Sarcelles
  In the presence of Christophe Césaire, grandson of Aimé Césaire, and Serge Letchimy, Member of Parliament for Martinique.
• 2010, Le Mémorial du Nèg Mawon est retiré
  In order to carry out town planning work, the monument was removed from the public space
• 2011, Inauguration of the Aimé Césaire bas-relief in Charleville-Mézières
  This inauguration is a local event for the Year of Overseas France
• 2011, The statue of Mahé de la Bourdonnais is draped in a black veil
• 2012, Célébration de la qualification de l’équipe de France de basket aux Jeux Olympiques de Londres
  La statue est revêtue d’un maillot géant sur le modèle de celui des joueurs de basket de l’équipe de France. Photographie de l’équipe de France de basket au pied de la statue. Le journal télévisé montre la statue recouverte de son maillot géant.
• 2012, Request to reinstall the Marchand statue
  The request was made by an opposition politician from the 12th arrondissement of Paris (where the monument is located). Among the reasons given: the "humanitarian" dimension of the mission. The request was rejected. Following the same logic of rehabilitation, flowers are sometimes placed on the monument: at the feet of the first European and at the feet of the doctor (example in 2024).
• 2012, Artistic intervention by Sarah Trouche, the statue of Josephine is whipped
  In November 2012, artist Sarah Trouche created a performance art piece to open the second edition of the Pool Art Fair in Martinique. Naked, her body entirely covered in red paint, to symbolize the Kalina peoples, she whipped the statue of Empress Josephine for twenty minutes, summoning it to tell us the truth. For this artist, the monument is the symbol of the re-establishment of slavery, and also embodies French colonial power. Her aim is to open up a debate and encourage people to question the presence of such a statue in the public space.
• 2012, Les doigts de la statue de Vélo ont été coupés
  Doigts coupés, peinture blanche qui raye les plaques, visage tagué
• 2013, Disparition et transfert du buste de Félix Eboué à La Boucan, commune de Sainte-Rose
  Le buste est enlevé de son emplacement initial, à proximité du pont. Il disparaît pendant 3 semaines, puis il est réinstallé au centre d'un rond-point par le Collectif de défense mobile, « la voix des sans-voix » qui estime que cet emplacement lui donne la visibilité qu'il n'avait pas.
• 2013, The statue of Victor Schœlcher is topped with a wreath of flowers
  As part of the Chelchè ka sonjé cultural program, commemorating the abolition of slavery and its memories in the commune of Schœlcher, a wreath of flowers was laid at the feet of the Schœlcher statue. On May 3, it was found placed on his head.
• 2013, The statue of Victor Schœlcher is damaged
  On the night of September 11 to 12, 2013, the face of the statue of Victor Schœlcher was destroyed, and inscriptions were noted on the base in red felt-tip pen: “he was a freemason this slave-owning Schoelcher”, “freedom is not given, it is taken”, “viva la révolution”, “Honor, Dignity, Recognition for our African Ancestors”, as well as in black felt-tip pen: “this man gave us nothing. What little we have has been acquired through suffering”.
• 2013, Monument to the victims of slavery in Sarcelles
  Engraved on the stele are the names of 213 victims of slavery, 70 of whom were the ancestors of Sarcelles residents. These names were taken from the lists of newly freed people in 1848. They were chosen by the association Comité Marche du 23 mai 1998. The monument was designed by Jean-Claude Nasso and installed next to the bust of Césaire.
• 2013, Black paint projected onto the statue of Voltaire
  A black moustache was painted on the face, and the pubis was also painted black.
• 2014, The Maroon Memorial is reinstalled
  The Memorial has been relocated to the center of the traffic circle at the entrance to the town, making immediate access more difficult
• 2014, New inauguration of the statue of Vélo, Pointe-à-Pitre
  L'association Akyio organise trois jours de fêtes autour de la statue refaite et réinstallée à son emplacement et rebaptise officieusement la rue "Lari Marcel Lollia, di Vélo Tanbouyé"
• 2014, Nouvelle statue de Vélo à Pointe-à-Pitre
  La nouvelle statue est une copie de la première, mais elle est réalisée en bronze.
• 2015-2019, Mutilation du buste sur le monument Colomb
  Le bas du visage est détruit au burin, le marbre est noirci
• 2015, Anti-colonial protest boards hung on the Redvers Buller statue
  The protest boards read "Wanted! For war crimes committed in China, Sudan and South Africa" and "Colonialism is nothing to be proud of". A pride flag was also attached to Buller's statue.
• 2015, Creation of Rhodes Must Fall Oxford
• 2015, Creation of the Countering Colston campaign
• 2015, Creation of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement
• 2015, Déplacement du monument à la Mulâtresse Solitude
  2015, Relocation of the Mulâtresse Solitude monument
• 2015, The statue of Mahé de la Bourdonnais is covered in white cloth and bears a sign reading "Je suis esclavagiste" ("I am a slaveholder").
• 2015, Nouvelle plaque pour la statue de Vélo, Pointe-à-Pitre
  Une nouvelle plaque est installée : "J'ai été Ti-Vénance Lollia. Je suis Marcel. Je resterai Vélo"
• 2015, Stèle « à la gloire des Goum mixtes marocains »
  Moroccan-style portico The Mixed Moroccan Goums are groups of Moroccan soldiers created by the French army who played an essential role during the Second World War.
• 2015, Stèle mémorielle des Indiens de Martinique
  Cette stèle collective complète et infléchit la commémoration, plus politique autour du buste de Gandhi à Fort-de-France.
• 2016, Request to remove the Olry statue
  On November 9, 2016, the Collectif des Cercles des Libres Penseurs Kanak et des communautés sent a letter to the Minister of Overseas France ahead of her official visit to New Caledonia, scheduled for December 6-10, as well as to the city of Nouméa and the High Commission of New Caledonia, to demand "the removal of the statue of Admiral Olry, which is a colonial symbol that still has a crippling and infantilizing coercive psychological impact on any indigenous Kanaky people who see it". A petition has been set up online to demand the statue's removal.