Black Lives Matter statue torn down a day after its Budapest unveiling

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An installation by sculptor Péter Szalay, dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement, was pulled down on Friday morning in Hungary just a day after it was put on display.

Standing at just a metre high, the 3D-printed work, which depicts New York's Statue of Liberty in rainbow colours, has already sparked controversy in the country among the government of Viktor Orbán.

Erected on Thursday in the capital Budapest, Lady Liberty is portrayed bending the knee, stretching her right fist in the air and holding a plaque that reads: "Black Lives Matter".

Szalay previously told Euronews that he was sure that the installation would be smashed as soon as it was put on public display - the statue was meant to be in position for two weeks.

"I really expected it, but the fate of the statue actually turned out to be even more interesting than I thought", he said after his artwork had been pulled down.

"The rainbow stripes are undoubtedly very irritating to the vandals. They are already offended by the rainbow alone, even though it is also a biblical symbol. After the flood, it was a celestial sign that the disaster was over".

The statue caused an uproar after it won a recent tender for public art in the ninth district of the Hungarian capital.

"Black Lives Matter is basically a racist movement. The racist is not the person who opposes a BLM statue, but the person who erects one", said Gergely Gulyás, Orbán's chief of staff.

But the mayor of the district, Krisztina Baranyi, defended the move, saying: "The BLM goals of opposing racism and police brutality are just as relevant in Hungary as anywhere else".

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Black Lives Matter statue torn down a day after its Budapest unveiling

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