Washington.- White House spokeswoman, Caroline Leavitt, rejected this Monday that the US returned the Statue of Liberty to France, after a French parliamentarian called for the gift to be returned to the Americans in the 1880s.
"Absolutely not," Leavitt said when asked if the monument would be returned.
"My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind him that it's only thanks to the United States of America that the French aren't speaking German right now, so they should be very grateful to our great country," he added.
The center-left French politician in the European Parliament Raphael Glucksmann He criticized the current situation in the United States, stating that it no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue in 1884.
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The colossal Statue of Liberty illuminating the world with her torch It was made in Paris by the sculptor Bartholdi, in collaboration with Gustavo Eiffel who was in charge of the metal structure. The statue was given by France to the United States on the occasion of the centenary of its independence.
Installed in 1886 at the entrance to New York Harbor, its effigy has since welcomed millions of immigrants who came to populate the United States.
