A woman tries to climb the Statue of Liberty in New York

The security forces were forced to evacuate visitors who came to admire the Statue of Liberty in New York. A woman, perched on the pedestal of the monument, refused to come down. Parallel to this incident, a group of people were demonstrating on Liberty Island against the migration policy of Donald Trump.

Thousands of tourists were evacuated from the complex of the Statue of Liberty Wednesday, July 4 in New York, the day of the party of Independence in the United States, because a woman, perched on top of the pedestal of the statue, refused to come down.

The National Park Service could not confirm whether the woman was part of a group of demonstrators who had deployed a banner with the inscription "S remove the ICE "in front of the pedestal of the statue.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was at the center of the Trump Administration's policy today. abandoned, which planned to separate the parents of children in families illegally entered the United States, via Mexico, which led to calls for its dissolution.

Seven protesters arrested

In the images broadcast by the television channels, two officers in climbing harnesses catch the woman who is near the right foot raised of the giant statue. A few minutes before, the woman had removed her pink sneakers and tried unsuccessfully to climb the weathered robe of the copper giant's verdigris

Seven protesters were arrested on Wednesday morning on the island of Liberty where is the statue of Auguste Bartholdi, according to a spokesman for the National Park Service. He could not confirm if the woman on the statue belonged to the group of protesters.

The incident forced the park service to evacuate the island on that sultry afternoon where, in general, thousands of tourists visit the statue inaugurated in 1886.