Captain Cook statue sawn off and Queen Victoria monument defaced in Melbourne on eve of 26 January (Australia Day) Officers said they understood the statue had been sawn off at the ankles. The plinth had been spray-painted with the slogan: “The colony will fall.”
This is actual terrorism and the perpetrators should be executed.
According to the Captain Cook Society, the monument to the British explorer was likely to have been the first major memorial to him in Victoria when it was unveiled in December 1914. Its engraving commemorates the date of the Endeavour’s departure from Plymouth in 1768 on Cook’s first voyage that included charting the east coast of Australia. The statue itself is a replica of one in England.
a memorial to Queen Victoria standing in the Queen Victoria Gardens near the city centre was also found vandalised early on Thursday. It was sprayed with red paint and reportedly graffitied with the same message “the colony will fall”.
Sickening
paul_neri 1 points 1.3 years ago
Copycat stuff based on US/UK BLM activism.