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<\/p>\nCeramic tiles around the eye of the iconic Belfast landmark were smashed in the incident in the early hours of Sunday<\/p>\n
The iconic Big Fish in Belfast has been damaged<\/p>\n
One of Belfast’s most iconic sculptures has been damaged in an overnight attack.<\/p>\n
Police were called after the Big Fish on Donegall Quay<\/a> was damagaed in the early hours of Sunday, September 20. Ceramic tiles around the eye of the iconic Belfast landmark were smashed in the incident<\/p>\n The 10m salmon on Donegall Quay was commissioned in 1999 to celebrate the regeneration of the River Lagan and the historic importance of the site.<\/p>\n It was created by John Kindness and its beautiful blue scales are made up of ceramic tiles describing different scenes from the city’s history.<\/p>\n The Big Fish is also known as the Salmon of Knowledge and is one of the city’s most recognisable landmarks.<\/p>\n Sergeant Kelly<\/a> said: \u201cWe received a report at around 12.30am that someone had been seen causing damage to the \u2018Big Fish\u2019 sculpture in the Donegall Quay area.<\/p>\n \u201cOfficers attended the scene, where it was noted that significant damage had been caused to the left eye of the sculpture.<\/p>\n \u201cA 44-year-old man was subsequently located nearby and arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.<\/p>\n \u201cHe remains in police custody at this time.<\/p>\n \u201cOur enquiries are ongoing and we would appeal to anyone with information to contact police using our witness appeal form at https:\/\/reporting.psni.police.uk\/appeals<\/a>, quoting reference 35 of 20\/09\/26, or call us on 101.\u201d<\/p>\n Alternatively, you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or contact them online at http:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ceramic tiles around the eye of the iconic Belfast landmark were smashed in the incident in the early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,52221,924,1120,96,2662,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-belfast-city-centre","tag-crime","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-psni","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}