France: Activists call out slave trader statues in Paris

Anti-racism groups gared for a "de-colonial tour" of Paris on Sunday to call attention to monuments and streets houring historical figures tied to slave tre or colonial-era abuses.

It was organized by people representing low-income neighbourhoods in French suburbs, home to large communities who trace ir origins to former colonies.

Black activist and migrants' rights groups also joined tour.

march was supposed to take place on streets around Paris' Museum of Immigration but was longer authorized by French police shortly before start.

Inste, group walked around a square outside museum and symbolically renamed a street after each round.

demonstration was held on 58th anniversary of Algeria's independence from France after a long and brutal war.

In a call on social networks, organizers of Sunday's march accused French government of "igring memory of people it reduced to slavery or colonized by mass slaughter."

y want France to rename streets and monuments for people who fought against slave tring and colonial crimes.

Algeria was considered jewel in France's colonial empire and is marking its independence day Sunday with a special funeral ceremony for 24 resistance fighters decapitated by French forces 19th century.

fighters’ skulls were brought back to France as trophies and held in a Paris museum for deces until ir return to Algiers on Friday.

(Representative Im)