Focus on this artwork and analyze the Events following the placement of the statue.
The placement of the statue at Paris Square in Jerusalem, which lasted 25 minutes, caused widespread excitement among protesters and the public in the area. Zalait explained the meaning behind the statue to the audience and stated that the statue will take part in the regular protests at the square on Saturday evenings.
In spite of the Sabbath, at 3:00am, enforcers of the Jerusalem municipality, arrived with a police escort and a crane in order to remove the statue from the square. Attorney Gonen Ben Itzhak quickly drove to Jerusalem in an attempt to prevent the removal of the statue from the premises. He demanded the enforcers show him a document pertaining the legality of the statue's confiscation and was refused.
The statue's creator, Zalait, laid down on the statue, refused to leave it and was subsequently forcefully arrested by police, detained and later released. The statue was confiscated by Jerusalem Municipality enforcers.Both Jerusalem Municipality and the Police disclaimed any responsibility for the removal of the statue. Later on, city officials claimed that they removed the statue because it posed a security hazard. The Municipality ignored the certification of a structural engineer working for the protest movement and did not demand to be shown the structure's certification before the removal of the statue.
After being released, Zalait stated that the statue had a structural certification by an engineer and that 50 policemen had shown up in order to remove it, desecrated the Sabbath, pulled him and injured him, all for the sake of not showing the statue to protesters on  Saturday evening. Zalait, who funded the statue himself and without any political backing, began a crowdfunding campaign in order to raise 450,000 shekels for his expenses in creating the statue. As of December 12, 2020, 160,000 shekels were.On Saturday evening, December 5, protests in Jerusalem included protest exhibitions, as homages to the confiscated statue, of people striking a pose as that of the statue.
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