Edward Colston statue retrieved from river by council and taken to 'secure location'
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mirror.co.ukThe statue of slave trader Edward Colston has been fished out of Bristol Harbour by the council. At 6.10am this morning Bristol City Council announced that the maligned figured had been retrieved from the city's waters.
It will now be taken to a secure location before being added to the city's museum collection. The authority said the statue needed to be removed so the harbour could remain operational.
The statue was torn from its plinth and rolled into the harbour on Sunday by Black Lives Matter protesters. Many residents and activists had been calling for its removal for years, due to Colston's significant and bloody part in the Atlantic slave-trade.
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