Pro-Palestine activists vandalise Winston Churchill’s statue with ‘zionist war criminal’ slogans
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The statue was vandalised overnight
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Activists graffitied the slogan ‘Free Palestine’ onto the statue of Sir Winston Churchill
Westminster heritage wardens begin covering the graffiti with tape and plastic bin bags
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The images have sparking fury online, with one X user saying: ‘Without Churchill there’d be no Britain left to protest in. Vandals hate him because he stood against everything they pretend to fight for today.’
Another wrote: ‘I don’t want to share a country with people who think Churchill’s honour should be besmirched and who physically deface his statue.’
A third said: ‘He is a sacred symbol for the British. An attack on this statue is an attack on the heart of Britain.’
The monument has stood outside the Houses of Parliament since 1973.
Extinction Rebellion vandals defaced the statue of the former British prime minister in September 2020, spray-painting the words ‘is a racist’ on the base of the statue.
It came after Black Lives Matter activists graffitied it with the same words in June that year.
The Daily Mail has approached the Met Police for comment.
Matt Vickers, deputy chair of the Conservative Party, said the vandals need to be ‘held to account’ over the incident
One critic said that ‘an attack on this statue is an attack on the heart of Britain’
This is a breaking news story. More to follow.
