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The little mermaid. The little mermaid is a sculpture on Langelinie that offers travelers welcome in Copenhagen harbor. It will illustrate Hans Christian Andersen fairytale of the same name. The little mermaid was a gift to Copenhagen, donated by brewer Carl Jacobsen and executed by sculptor Edvard Eriksen. As a model for the sculpture used Edvard Eriksen's wife Eline Eriksen. The statue was set permanently at Langelinie, 23 August 1913 [1] and is one of Denmark's biggest tourist attractions. The little mermaid is a sculpture on Langelinie that offers travelers welcome in Copenhagen harbor. It will illustrate Hans Christian Andersen fairytale of the same name. The little mermaid was a gift to Copenhagen, donated by brewer Carl Jacobsen and executed by sculptor Edvard Eriksen. As a model for the sculpture used Edvard Eriksen's wife Eline Eriksen. The statue was set permanently at Langelinie, 23 August 1913 [1] and is one of the largest turistattraktioner.Statuen has repeatedly been vandalized, by 11 September 2003, when unknown perpetrators knocked her down from her stone, possibly using explosives. Mermaid lost first his head in 1964. It was sawn off, and neither head or perpetrators of vandalism is found. The artist Jørgen Nash claimed to know the culprit, but refused to reveal the identity. In 1997 he described in his memoir A mermaid killer crosses his tracks that he had thrown the beveled head Utterslev Mose. On 22 July 1984 it went beyond the arm, she leans with. It was sawn off, but the perpetrators came forward a few days later, bringing along his arm, which could fairly quickly put on again. The bill for the perpetrators, however, was significant. For the second time in history lost mermaid head in 1998. During the night, unknown perpetrators had sawn the statue's head off with a hacksaw. They contacted each. phone freelance photographer Michael Forsmark Poulsen early in the morning and he informed the police after taking pictures of the statue. The following day the story went around the world on all sorts of TV stations and newspapers. Three days later, the statue's head found when the perpetrators again contacted the photographer, who earned around £ 100,000 on his pictures of The Little Mermaid with the missing head. Michael Forsmark Poulsen was arrested and charged himself to have had no vandalism, but was two weeks later re-released. Only in November 1998 were the charges against him and two other abandoned.