Police investigate disappearance of Melania Trump statue in her native Slovenia

Ankles of a bronze statue which represented Melania Trump and was sawn off and taken away remain on the tree stump where it was placed in 2020, in the village of Rozno, Slovenia (Relja Dusek/AP)

Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of US first lady Melania Trump from her home town.

The life-size sculpture was unveiled in 2020 during President Donald Trump’s first term in office near Sevnica in central Slovenia, where Mrs Trump was born in 1970.