Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said he will start a campaign to remove the Statue of Liberty in New York if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is extradited and convicted in the United States, RIA Novosti reports.

If he is taken to the United States and sentenced to the maximum term and death in prison, we must begin a campaign to dismantle the Statue of Liberty donated by the French, which is located in New York, because it is no longer a symbol of freedom, he said in a press release. conferences at the National Palace.

The politician added that he was going to discuss this issue in negotiations with the leader of the United States, Joseph Biden, recalling that he had previously applied to Donald Trump for clemency.