A French court has fined Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza for snatching an African funerary post from a Paris museum
Diyabanza, who has lived in France for 20 years, belongs to a pan-African movement that is pressing France to return thousands of art works removed from its African colonies and make reparations for acts of slavery.“We will appeal to show elements that the judge has obviously missed,” he added.
With an associate, Diyabanza prised the carved wooden ornament from its stand in the Quai Branly museum as a third man live-streamed the act on social media.The museum holds some 70,000 African objects, French art historian Benedicte Savoy told Reuters in 2018. Diyabanza faces a second theft charge for removing an artifact from a Marseille museum. He says his actions are politically justified.
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