Vandals have tried to topple a statue of striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic outside Malmo Stadium in Sweden by sawing at its feet, prompting police to erect a fence around it, the BBC has reported. The statue has been a target of angry fans at Ibrahimovic’s hometown club ever since Sweden’s record international goalscorer announced he had acquired a stake in a rival team. Fans scorched the statue with flares and sprayed racist messages on the ground nearby hours after the announcement on Nov. 27. A Malmo police spokeswoman told the BBC that vandals had placed a rope around the neck of the statue in the early hours of Thursday morning and tried to saw through its feet. “There is a risk now it could fall and we have placed a fence around it,” the spokeswoman added https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50756061.

Source: BBC December 13, 2019 07:07 UTC