Submitted on Friday 12th March 2021
Rejected on Wednesday 24th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Give the stolen marbles / sculptures back to Greece.
Those marbles were stolen from The Parthenon in Athens, when Greece was under the Turkish occupation and the Turkish leader gave permission to Lord Elgin to take them. Unlawful. The British Museum says they store them to avoid them being affected by pollution. London has more pollution than Athens.
Year after year after year, Greek people and celebrities ask for the marbles to be returned.
The U.K. government had said that they would give us the marbles back if we had a new, better suited museum to store them in. This, in Greece now we have a new Acropolis museum.
They were given to the U.K. unlawfully and the British Museum is still storing them under false pretences (to save them from pollution).
They are part of our history and culture and all of us (Greek people) want them back.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You might like to sign the following petitions:
Return of the Parthenon Marbles through the establishment of an independent body
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/552447
Allow the Trustees of the British Museum to accept repatriation requests
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550304
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