COPENHAGEN – Police in Greenland have detained a man in his early 30s in connection with the vandalism of a statue of a Danish colonizer that was doused with red paint and the word “decolonize.”Police told Greenland broadcaster KNR Monday that investigations of the defacement of the statue of Hans Egede, a Lutheran missionary who arrived on the vast island in 1721, were ongoing.
The suspect was not identified.The statue in Nuuk’s old district was vandalized early Sunday as Greenland was marking its National Day.