Controversial quotes by Prince Harry have inspired a sculpture filled with human blood. The sculpture, featuring blood donated by Afghan refugees, is to be projected by a Russian artist on to St Paul's Cathedral along with footage of the Duke of Sussex.
Sky News reports that Andrei Molodkin's projection is a protest over Prince Harry's controversial remarks about the number of people he killed in Afghanistan. The Duke of Sussex faced criticism for revealing in his memoir that he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan, writing that it was "not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me".
The prince also admitted that he did not think of those he killed as "people", but instead as "chess pieces" that had to be taken off the board. Mr Molodkin told Sky News that Harry's comment had made him "very, very angry" and the idea of his project "is to drench St Paul's Cathedral in the blood of Afghani people".
"They read they are just 'chess figures' for some prince hunting by helicopter," he told Sky. "It looked like a safari situation. How he told it, for him it's like a computer game."
Mr Molodkin said four Afghans in Calais had already given blood for the sculpture and another five Afghans in the UK will donate when the stunt is carried out before the end of March. The blood will be "pumped" into the sculpture of the royal coat of arms.
Explaining how the project will work, he said: "Blood will go in the royal coat of arms, it will circulate in there. It will be projected on to the cathedral -so all the cathedral will be in the blood of Afghani people."
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Mr Moldokin, a former soldier in the Russian army, said a video featuring Prince Harry would also be projected on to the cathedral. He added: "Even in the army, you're scared to participate in the shooting of others…you're very stressed about. But he thinks it's a video game."
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