Friday morning, on the Place Verte in Charleroi, residents had the bad surprise to find that the statue of Gaston Lagaffe had been decapitated. The head had disappeared. She was found last night around midnight, confirms the Charleroi police spokesperson. “She is in the police services and will be handed over to the municipal college. She was found in the meadow of the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi – IMTR in Gerpinnes. It is undoubtedly a schoolboy joke. It is a theft so the or the perpetrators risk(s) from 1 month to 5 years in prison.”
This is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened: in November 2018, a few days following its installation, the statue of Spirou had also been vandalized, as well as that of “Spip”, the hero’s red squirrel. However, the animal’s head reappeared a few days later.
The city services and the police have opened an investigation, hoping to find the perpetrator(s) as soon as possible.
