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Fury as America’s only Anne Frank memorial defaced with swastika stickers 

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‘A stab to the heart’: Fury as America’s only Anne Frank memorial in Idaho defaced with swastika stickers Memorial to Anne Frank in Idaho was defaced with swastikas on Tuesday The memorial depicts a bronze statue of Frank, holding her diary  It was vandalised with a swastika and the words: ‘We are everywhere’  Police have … Read more

Elvis Presley’s Graceland is defaced by vandals who spray-painted ‘BLM’ on wall of King’s mansion 

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Elvis Presley’s iconic Graceland estate in Memphis was defaced by vandals overnight with ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Defund the Police’ graffiti. The protest slogans were painted in thick black and orange lettering on the stone wall that surrounds the King’s mansion along Elvis Presley Boulevard, the Commercial Appeal first reported. Graceland, where Elvis lived for … Read more

Student, 19, who twice defaced statue of Lord Nelson to ‘start a debate’ about slavery spared jail 

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Student, 19, who twice defaced statue of Lord Nelson to ‘start a debate’ about slavery is spared jail Jae Ikhera, 19, sprayed ‘V for Vendetta’ on a statue of Lord Nelson in Norwich The student pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal damage for two offences She was given a 12-month conditional discharge by magistrates … Read more

Washington Sq Park monument defaced as NYPD faces $1bn budget cut

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New York City’s famous George Washington Monument was defaced with red paint on Monday as protesters gathered across town outside City Hall ahead of a controversial vote that slashes the city’s police budget by $1billion – 16 percent of its total – despite escalating crime and chaos.  In the latest symbol of police defiance and … Read more

Charles Dickens museum in Kent is defaced with graffiti branding the author ‘racist’

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Vandals have targeted a museum and a street sign dedicated to beloved 19th century author Charles Dickens, branding the writer as a ‘racist’. ‘Dickens Racist, Dickens Racist,’ has been scrawled on the outside of the The Dickens House Museum in Broadstairs, Kent, while attempts were made to black-out the lettering on a street sign for … Read more

Nancy Astor statue defaced by vandals with ‘Nazi’ spray paint

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Vandals have scrawled ‘Nazi’ across a monument to the first women to take her seat in the Houses of Parliament.  Workers in Plymouth discovered the graffiti on a statue of Nancy Astor in Plymouth Hoe on Tuesday, after weeks of monuments being targeted across the country. The plinth of the statue, unveiled by Theresa May … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: The race protesters who defaced Churchill’s statue are perverse and offensive

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Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory.  The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 infection.  Then … Read more