“As a descendant of Camilo, this is aberrant,” confessed Ângela Castelo Branco. The great-great-granddaughter of the Portuguese writer reacted to the controversy sparked by a petition to remove the statue of Amores de Camilo, from Largo Amor de Perdição, calling it “an outrage” and a “more or less pornographic example.”
“This is not Camilo. These are half a dozen gentlemen who must believe they are owners of Porto or Portugal and who signed a petition that makes no sense. and that opens the possibility of destruction of heritage,” he stated in the program Contracorriente, about the 37 signatories and the mayor himself, Rui Moreira, who agreed to the request and ordered the removal of the statue of Francisco Simões.
Porto and beyond: now the statues come down too
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Source: Observadora
