Jacques Villeneuve, former Formula 1 driver and son of Gilles Villeneuve, who died during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix in Zolder in 1982, angrily returned to the theft of the statue representing his father.
Indeed, on the night of October 30 to 31, thieves sawed off, at the feet, the statue of the former F1 driver which was present outside the Gilles Villeneuve museum in Berthierville, Quebec. Shocked and affected by this theft, Jacques Villeneuve reacted on his networks.
“I cannot understand what such people have in their heads or hearts – if they have one.”
“To go and steal a monument like that, which is still important, Gilles represented Canada and Quebec at the international level, and there aren't many of them. It’s a national pride, a pride for Berthierville, for all the people who love it.”
“And so that idiots are capable of such a gesture… But I believe that these are people who have no heart or brains, and it is frankly shameful.”
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Villeneuve added that the people who stole the statue were “shameless and soulless beings [qui] do not deserve to be called human”.
Speaking to CanadaCasino.ca, he expressed his anger again. “Why would anyone do this? I don't understand ”, he said. “It is not like gold or diamonds that can be stolen, hidden and sold. This defies belief. It’s a pretty heavy piece and it would take a lot of effort to cut it and you’d need a big pickup truck to transport it.”
“No one noticed, which I found even crazier. How can you not notice someone doing this? And what do we do with it? His feet are missing. You can’t sell it, because if you tried to, people would immediately realize that they were the idiots who took it.”
“If we melted it down, it wouldn’t be worth much. Bronze is not very valuable. So it’s useless… Financially, with the amount it took to take it, it doesn’t make sense”concluded the Canal + consultant.
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