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• 2016, Graffiti on Marchand monument
  "We shit on your colonial nostalgia"
• 2016, Oriel College, Oxford announces it will not remove the Rhodes statue
  The decision by Oriel came in response to the threatened withdrawal of £100 million in donor gifts to the College if the statue were to be removed, which was later revealed in a leaked letter from the development office to the governing body of the college.
• 2016, Peinture blanche et inscription sur le buste "l'esclavage" d'Etcheto
  De la peinture blanche est versée sur le buste sur lequel "nazi" est écrit en lettres de couleur jaune.
• 2016, Rhodes Must Fall Oxford protest against the Christopher Codrington statue
• 2016, Statue of Mary Seacole unveiled
  Following a 12-year campaign, led by the Mary Seacole Trust, that raised £500,000, the first public statue of a named Black woman was unveiled in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital. It was unveiled by actress, author, singer and broadcaster Baroness Floella Benjamin. The politician David Lammy was present at the unveiling, and said it was a "seminal moment for Londoners, and for the black community particularly."
• 2017-2024, Public and media debates around requests to remove Bugeaud's statues and bust in Périgueux, Excideuil and Paris
  Public debates, articles in the media or posts on social networks, as well as rallies are numerous to demand the removal of statues and busts of Bugeaud but also the renaming of streets and schools to which he gave his name. Demands are still being made when the Cast in Stone site goes online in the spring of 2024.
• 2017, "What to do with the statues of French slaveholders"
  Article du journaliste Vincent Manilève dans le contexte du retrait aux Etats-Unis de la statue du général confédéré Robert E. Lee
• 2017, "Unauthorised Heritage" plaque attached to plinth of the Edward Colston statue
• 2017, Call for the construction of a statue “to the glory of Emir Abd El-Kader in Paris”.
• 2017, Racist Attack of the Maroon Memorial
  The monument was attacked in 2017, and marked with two symbols of white supremacism: a swastika and the Algiz. This attack is denounced and condemned by the municipality for “insulting the victims of slavery, the victims of Nazi barbarism and intelligence”
• 2017, Bust of Gandhi removed from its base
  Le buste disparaît momentanément avant d'être retrouvé par les services municipaux. Le buste est remis en place le 8 mars 2017.
• 2017, Faidherbe statue falls in Saint-Louis, Senegal
  Heavy rains caused the statue of Faidherbe to fall on the square of the same name, and a Senegalese Collective against the celebration of Faidherbe was formed in 2018 to oppose its reinstallation by decision of Mayor Mansour Faye under police escort on September 21, 2017 - followed by a spray of white paint on November 25, 2017.
• 2017, Faidherbe statue falls in Saint-Louis. Photograph by Thierno Dicko.
• 2017, Creation of a Facebook page “Déboulonnons Bugeaud, la statue de la honte”.
• 2017, Déclaration du député de Fort-de-France Serge Letchimy
  "Le député Serge Letchimy condamne l’enlèvement du buste du Mahatma Ghandi de son socle, ce week-end, et rappelle que ce buste placé à la Croix-Mission, non loin du quartier Obero, a été offert par le gouvernement indien en 2003, année de la Commémoration du cent-cinquantenaire de l’arrivée des premiers travailleurs indiens en Martinique. Un tel acte de vandalisme est inacceptable et irrespectueux vis à vis de la communauté indienne de la Martinique, ainsi que pour tous ceux qui reconnaissent chez Gandhi le représentant de la lutte non violente contre le colonialisme. »
• 2017, Destruction of the bas-relief representing Aimé Césaire in Charleville-Mézières
  The bas-relief representing Aimé Césaire was torn off and broken into pieces. The bas-relief representing Victor Schoelcher was untouched.
• 2017, Diffusion in the press a photograph base monument Olry without effigy.
• 2017, Face of Edward Colston statue is painted white
• 2017, The Front Uni des Immigrations et des Quartiers Populaires (FUIQP) neighborhood caravan stops in front of the statue and calls for its removal.
• 2017, The monument to Schœlcher is adorned with a hood and black and red jerseys
• 2017, Open letter against Colbert in Le Monde
  In August 2017, the violent controversy around the removal of the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, sparked international debates over symbols and monuments to white supremacist ideology in public spaces. In September 2017, Georges-Louis Tin, president of Conseil Représentatif des Associations Noires de France (CRAN), and philosopher Louis Sala-Molin, published an open letter in French newspaper le Monde. They specificially referenced the American controvery and called out France's own homages to Colbert, enabler and organizer of the French slave trade in the 1600s during Louis XIV's reign. The open letter called for Colbert's name to be taken out of public space. From their letter: "Why Colbert? Because Louis XIV's minister laid the foundations for the Code Noir, the legal monster that legalized this crime against humanity. Colbert was also the man who founded the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales, a slave trading company of sinister memory. In other words, when it comes to slavery, Colbert symbolizes both theory and practice, at the highest level.."
• 2017, Plaques from the "Identity" project in front of the monument to General Faidherbe. Photography : Thomas Deltombe
• 2018-2019, Wording dispute over the proposed second plaque for the Colston statue
• 2018, 10 years of the London, Sugar & Slavery Gallery: Reflections and Responses
  in 2018, on behalf of the Museum of London, historians Melissa Bennett, Kristy Warren and some of the original Advisory Group members organised this event to reflect on ten years of the London, Sugar & Slavery gallery. After touring the gallery and much discussion, participants, who included artists, heritage practitioners, and researchers responded on post it notes to a series of questions about the gallery. Bennett and Warren recorded those responses had ‘called for changes and updates to reflect new thinking and research, greater publicity in London and beyond, and more collaboration with schools, community groups and other black history and heritage organisations’ and some were 'critical about the gallery's overall narrative and its perceived lack of impact beyond the 2007 commemorations'. To the question 'Something that I learnt today' one of the post it notes read 'That Milligan's statue was covered in 2007' indicating the continuing debate at that time about the presence of the statue.
• 2018, All Souls College installs a plaque to commemorate the enslaved people on the Codrington plantations
  The plaque was installed at the entrance to the College Library. Its text reads as follows: 'In Memory of Those Who Worked in Slavery on the Codrington Plantations in the West Indies'
• 2018, Bristol City Council makes planning application to add a second plaque to the Colston Statue
• 2018, Demande du retrait du buste de Gandhi de Fort-De-France
  « La statue de Gandhi doit être retirée de la place Croix-Mission (Fort-de-France » La demande survient après l'annonce dans la presse qu'une statue de Gandhi a été déboulonnée au Ghana.
• 2018, Graffitis sur le socle de la statue de Belain d'Esnambuc
  "Honte à nos élus" (peinture rouge) "Où sont nos héros" (peinture rouge) "Criminel" (peinture rouge)
• 2018, Guerilla art installation at the base of the Edward Colston statue
• 2018, The statue of Josephine is dressed in a yellow vest
• 2018, The statue of Victor Schœlcher is sprayed with red paint and his face is damaged
• 2018, Le collectif Faidherbe doit tomber announces its creation at a press conference
  In Lille, members of the Survie Nord association, challenged by the glass cube placed on Faidherbe's head and by the explanatory label likening Faidherbe's violent wars of conquest to "voyages", got in touch with other Lille associations - the Collectif Afrique, the Atelier d'histoire critique, the Front uni des immigrations et des quartiers populaires (FUIQP) - and Senegalese activists who founded the Collectif sénégalais contre la célébration Faidherbe. e.s who founded the Collectif sénégalais contre la célébration de Faidherbe. Together these associations found the Collectif Faidherbe doit tomber, presented at a conference on April 10, 2018. Its name is a direct reference to Rhodes Must Fall, and immediately places the collective's action within the global movement to challenge colonial symbols in the public space.
• 2018, The monument to General Faidherbe is tagged
  The statue's base was tagged with the words "colonialist" and "ACAB" sprayed in white paint. The town lodged a complaint and the municipal services took charge of the clean-up.
• 2018, Le monument des 3 Maréchaux est classé monument historique
  Ce classement s'inscrit dans les célébrations du centenaire de la première Guerre mondiale.
• 2018, Les trois statues des maréchaux sont décapitées à Saint-Gaudens
  20-21 décembre 2018 : les trois statues représentant les maréchaux sont décapitées, leurs têtes restant sur place. Aucune revendication. Certains articles de presse font le lien avec le mouvement des Gilets jaunes alors en lutte contre la politique du gouvernement.
• 2018, Open letter to Martine Aubry, Mayor of Lille, asking to remove Faidherbe statue
• 2018, Petition to remove Colbert's monument in Paris
  On 21 May 2018, Gilles Dégras (author of a satirical political newsletter in Martinique) published a petition on Avaaz.org to remove the monument to Colbert in front of the Assemblée Nationale in Paris. Here is the text explaining the purpose of the petition (in French): "La présence d'une statue de #COLBERT le père du #CodeNoir devant l'assemblée nationale française est une aberration dans une France qui se dit pays des droits de l'homme et qui a déclaré l'esclavage crime contre l'humanité." Consulted on May 24, 2023, the petition page had 3,744 signatures.
• 2018, Projection de peinture rouge sur la statue de Voltaire à Paris
  Le nez est à nouveau cassé. Des graffitis sont inscrits sur le socle à la peinture rouge : NTM VOLTAIRE FUCK
• 2018, Statue Voltaire Tag
• 2018, Woollen red ball and chain attached to the legs of the Edward Colston statue
• 2019, Agatha Christie statue in Torquay vandalised
  Unknown individuals caused damage to the bust of Agatha Christie in Torquay. The statue was removed for repairs by Torbay Council.
• 2019, Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees vetoes plans for second plaque to Colston statue over wording dispute
• 2019, Cérémonie du 8 mai au pied du monument aux 3 maréchaux
  Les têtes ont été recollées, la cérémonie du 8 mai 2019 est l'occasion de manifester l'attachement à ce monument.
• 2019, Creation of the Bristol Legacy Steering Group
  2019, Création du groupe de pilotage de l'héritage de Bristol
• 2019, Drapeau indépendantiste peint sur le socle de la statue de Belain d'Esnambuc
  Les couleurs vert-rouge-noire sont peintes sur la caravelle située sur la face avant du socle. Le drapeau indépendantiste est peint sur les côtés. Graffitis réalisés le jour où la collectivité territoriale choisir un nouveau drapeau pour remplacer le drapeau hérité de la période esclavagiste, en écartant le drapeau indépendantiste Rouge-Vert-Noir. En février 2023, ce drapeau a été abandonné au profit du drapeau Rouge-Vert-Noir.
• 2019, The statue of François de Mahy is covered in yellow paint.
• 2019, The statue of Napoleon I is classified as a historic monument
• 2019, Surcouf monument receives red paint
  On May 10, the national day of remembrance of the slave trade, slavery and its abolition, the head and bust of the Surcouf statue are covered in red paint. The action was not claimed, but the gesture was most likely intended to denounce Surcouf's involvement in the slave trade.
• 2019, Black paint on the statue of Voltaire in Paris
• 2019, Petition to remove the monument to Colbert in Paris
  In 2019, Gilles Dégras publishes a new petition to remove the Colbert statue in front of Assemblée Nationale in Paris. Published Change.org, it is addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron. "Et pendant ce temps-là en #France le pays des droits de l'homme, qui a déclaré l'esclavage crime contre l'humanité, #colbert le père du code Noir a une statue devant l'Assemblée national à Paris. " At time of consultation on May 24, 2023, the petition had 265 signatures.