Following allegations of sexual assault levied against filmmaker Woody Allen by his daughter Dylan Farrow, women in Spain are reportedly demanding the removal of a statue of the New Yorker.

Spanish publication The Local reports women's groups are petitioning Oviedo City Hall to remove a statue of Allen, which has stood on the busy shopping street Calle Milicias Nacionales since 2003 following his visit to the city to collect the prestigious Prince of Asturias award.

A petition sent to the mayor's office by the Asturias Feminist Organisation reportedly asks that the council remove the statue that serves 'to honour an abuser and pervert'.

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Oviedo City Hall has confirmed it will consider the proposal during a forthcoming council meeting.

The statue was designed by Spanish painter and sculptor Vicente Menéndez Santarúa, and has become a popular tourist spot after the director set his 2008 film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in the city.

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This news comes almost a week after Allen's adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, gave her first television interview in which she claimed the director sexually abused her when she was 7-years old. Allen continues to deny all allegations.

She first brought the claims to light in 1992 and again in 2014 in an open letter published in the New York Times calling for actors to stop working with him.

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Aged 32, Farrow has recently repeated her allegations in light of the #MeToo movement and Time's Up campaign, giving her account of specific details of an alleged assault in 1992.

Before Farrow's televised interview, several actors including Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Greta Gerwig, and Timothée Chalamet expressed their regret about working with Allen.

Following criticism of their work with the director, Chalamet, Hall (who appeared in Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and a reported Selena Gomez have donated substantial amounts of money to the Time's Up initiative.

Hall took to Instagram to address the issue: 'After reading and re-reading Dylan Farrow's statements of a few days ago and going back and reading the older ones — I see, not only how complicated this matter is, but that my actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed.

That is not something that sits easily with me in the current or indeed any moment, and I am profoundly sorry.'

Meanwhile, Chalamet revealed he was 'learning that a good role isn't the only criteria for accepting a job'.

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