PARIS – Vandals have defaced a monument celebrating the abolition of slavery in southern France, in an apparent response to growing anger over entrenched racism and calls for the removal of monuments to historical figures tied to colonialism and the slave trade.Statues to people with links to France's colonial past and slavery have been placed under police protection over the past week, as protesters have toppled or vandalized monuments to similar figures in the U.S., Britain and elsewhere.On Thursday, authorities in the southern city of Pau were alerted to damage to a monument celebrating France's abolition of slavery.
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