This photograph was taken in Vaxjo, Sweden on 13 April 1985 by a photojournalist named Hans Runesson. In this photo a 38 years old lady named Danuta Danielsson is hitting a neo nazi with her handbag.
In 2015 a local artist named Susana Arwin created a life size statue of Danielsson but council members were against it for two reasons; the statue can be interpreted as promoting violence and Danielssons surviving family did not like the idea of memorialising in that manner. To protest this decision people across sweden began adding handbags to statues.
In Spetember 2015 the celebrity Lasse Diding bought the statue with the intention of donating it to Varberg municipality but the Varberg board of culture did not accept the donation.
The statue is finally residing in the garden of Lasse Didings villa and a second statue was unveiled in Alingsas.
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