France returns the skull monarch, killed in the colonial era

The head of the Malagasy king, killed by the French troops during the war in the colonial era, was officially returned to Madagascar.

The transfer of King Tori’s skull – and two other members of his court – took place at the ceremony at the Ministry of Culture in Paris.

The skulls were taken to France in the late 19th century and kept in the Museum of Natural Sciences in the French capital.

This is the first use of a new law designed to accelerate the return of human remains from collections in France.

In August 1897, the French forces sent to claim colonial control over the Kingdom of Sokolov on the Western Madagascar, which developed the local army.

The King tool was killed and beheaded: his head was sent to Paris, where he was placed in the archives of the Museum of Natural Sciences.

Almost 130 years later, the pressure of the King’s offspring, as well as the government of the Indian Ocean, opened the way to return the skull.

This is not the first time France was given to human remains from the colonial era.

The most famous was the South African woman, nicknamed “Hotentat Venus”, which was once exhibited in Europe and Whose body was taken home in 2012.

But this is the first return in accordance with the recent law that greatly facilitates the process.

It is estimated that there are more than 20,000 human remains brought to France from all over the world for alleged scientific reasons alone.