A statue of Jean-Baptiste Colbert in Paris was vandalised.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert's statue in Paris was covered in graffiti amid a wave of anti-racism protests triggered by the death of George Floyd in the US.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert's statue in Paris was covered in graffiti amid a wave of anti-racism protests triggered by the death of George Floyd in the US.A statue of a 17th-century royal French minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert which stands outside the French parliament building in Paris, was covered in graffiti. The words 'state Negrophobia' were sprayed at the bottom of the statue. A group called the Anti-Negrophobia Brigade posted photos online of the graffiti.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert helped write the Code Noir or Black Code in the 17th Century, which defined slavery and race in France's colonial empire.

The incident comes in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by US police in Minneapolis, which led to a wave of protests across the world against police brutality and institutional racism.