MALMO, Sweden (AP) – Two bronze feet protrude from a block of stone, a large and dusty black cloth draped down one of its sides.
That's all that's left of a once-proud, 500-kilogram statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic that was unveiled to much fanfare in October outside the stadium of Malmo's soccer team, commemorating a local hero and one of Sweden's greatest ever sports stars.
Now, sawn off at its ankles and overturned during the latest in a series of vicious attack by vandals, the statue - minus the feet - is holed up in a secret location and undergoing repairs.