Paris's iconic Louvre is believed to be the first museum in the world to remove the Sackler name over the opioid crisis (AFP Photo/Ludovic MARIN) |
Paris (AFP) - The Louvre museum in Paris has removed the name of the Sackler family from one of its wings, amid a controversy that has seen the billionaire donors accused of pushing a highly-addictive opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths.
An AFP
reporter on Wednesday saw that masking tape had been put in place to hide the
Sackler name on plaques in the rooms of what had been the Sackler Wing of
Oriental Antiquities, which houses artefacts from the ancient Near East.
A museum
spokesperson could not say when the tape had been put in place. The wing had
been given the name due to a $3.6 million donation made by the Sackler family
in 1996.
Louvre
president Jean-Luc Martinez said on RTL television on Tuesday that the rooms no
longer carried the name as such a tribute lasted a maximum of 20 years after
the donation.
This would
mean that the Sackler wing should not have been named after the family for
several years. But the Louvre spokesperson declined to comment when asked why
the name had not been removed three years ago.
American
group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), backed by American
photographer Nancy Goldin, a former opioid addict, had urged the museum to
rename the Sackler Wing.
The Louvre
was the latest in a string of museums to face criticism over links to the
Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma, whose painkiller OxyContin is
now subject to more than 1,000 lawsuits over its role in the US opioid crisis.
In recent
months, galleries including New York's Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museum, and
London's Tate and National Portrait Gallery, said they would stop accepting
donations from the family.
But the
Louvre is believed to be the first to actually remove the name, a move welcomed
by a PAIN spokesperson while noting that the museum appeared unwilling to
publicise it.
In 2017,
47,000 people died in the United States as a result of overdosing on opioids
including prescription drugs, heroin and fentanyl, the Centers for Disease
Control says.
There are
hundreds of lawsuits in various US states against both Purdue and its owner the
Sackler family, who are accused of pushing for the prescription of OxyContin
despite knowing how addictive it is.
But worries
about the medication are not confined to the US.
Last month,
around 100 French doctors warned about the risk of a health crisis claiming
there were "12 million people in France taking opioids" who had not
been told about the potential for addiction and risk of overdose.
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