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| Graffiti including "Never again is Now" and "Free Palestine" appeared on the statue of the former prime minister (Image:Reuters) |
A man has been charged with criminal damage after graffiti was sprayed on the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, police have said.
On Friday, shortly after 04:00 GMT, Caspar San Giorgio, 38, of no fixed address, was taken into custody. He was taken into custody and charged on Saturday just before 4:00. The Metropolitan Police said he had been remanded into custody and was due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court later.
On the statue of the former prime minister in central London, graffiti reading "Never again is Now," "Free Palestine," and "Globalise the Intifada" appeared in the early hours of Friday.
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The Met and Greater Manchester Police announced in December that anyone caught using "globalise the intifada" would be arrested. The graffiti was described as "completely abhorrent" by a 10 Downing Street representative, who also stated that "the perpetrator must be held to account." "Sir Winston Churchill is a figure of great national pride," stated a spokesperson for the Home Office. It is shameful that vile vandals have defaced this statue. There have been numerous instances of vandalism against the prime minister's statue during the war, including during protests. During a Black Lives Matter protest in the United States that was sparked by George Floyd's death in June 2020, it was covered in graffiti that accused Churchill of being racist. Later that same year, an activist for the environmental group Extinction Rebellion was fined more than £1,500 for defacing the statue during a climate protest by painting "racist" on its plinth. Ivor Roberts-Jones designed the 12 feet (3.6 m) high memorial, which Lady Churchill, the wartime prime minister's widow, dedicated in 1973.
Source: BBC
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