One of the most famous symbols of America and its friendship with France should be returned to the country in which it was created, according to a French member of the European Parliament. 

A left-wing member of the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, Raphael Glucksmann, told supporters at a party conference, “We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: Give us back the Statue of Liberty.”