The targeted statues include the World War II Bomber Command memorial in Green Park.
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A total of five memorials to ex-servicemen and women have been defiled with white paint across London this week.
The search continues for the vandals, who are thought to have inflicted thousands of pounds worth of damage.
Police believe the incidents are linked and are calling for witnesses to come forward.
The targeted statues include the World War II Bomber Command memorial in Green Park, the nearby Canada Memorial, the Allies Statue statue of Second World War prime minister Sir Winston Churchill and US president Franklin D Roosevelt in New Bond Street, and the Royal Marines Memorial on The Mall.
The incidents happened in the early hours of Monday morning.
The memorial to Yvonne Fletcher in St James’s Square, a police officer who was murdered by a gunman during the 1984 Libyan Embassy siege, was also defaced later on Tuesday.
The RAF Benevolent Fund said it was the fourth time in six years that their Bomber Command Memorial had been vandalised since it was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
The memorial commemorates more than 55,500 members of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command who died in the Second World War.
Graeme Archer, an ex-Vietnam War Veteran and Managing Director of Spirit of Remembrance, expressed his concerns about the vandalism to City News as he laid a bouquet of flowers at the foot of the Bomber Command Memorial: “It sends a red flag to people that this is ‘okay’ – if I can use that word in inverted commas – but it’s just so wrong, it’s morally wrong, it’s wrong in every sense.”
No arrests have been made and police have said it is not clear what the motive behind the attacks is.
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A total of five memorials to ex-servicemen and women have been defiled with white paint across London this week.
The search continues for the vandals, who are thought to have inflicted thousands of pounds worth of damage.
Police believe the incidents are linked and are calling for witnesses to come forward.
The targeted statues include the World War II Bomber Command memorial in Green Park, the nearby Canada Memorial, the Allies Statue statue of Second World War prime minister Sir Winston Churchill and US president Franklin D Roosevelt in New Bond Street, and the Royal Marines Memorial on The Mall.
The incidents happened in the early hours of Monday morning.
The memorial to Yvonne Fletcher in St James’s Square, a police officer who was murdered by a gunman during the 1984 Libyan Embassy siege, was also defaced later on Tuesday.
The RAF Benevolent Fund said it was the fourth time in six years that their Bomber Command Memorial had been vandalised since it was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
The memorial commemorates more than 55,500 members of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command who died in the Second World War.
Graeme Archer, an ex-Vietnam War Veteran and Managing Director of Spirit of Remembrance, expressed his concerns about the vandalism to City News as he laid a bouquet of flowers at the foot of the Bomber Command Memorial: “It sends a red flag to people that this is ‘okay’ – if I can use that word in inverted commas – but it’s just so wrong, it’s morally wrong, it’s wrong in every sense.”
No arrests have been made and police have said it is not clear what the motive behind the attacks is.
