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‘The clean up alone is about $10,000 and that’s before we get to the cost of repairing and reinstating the statue.’
The video shows a person covering the statue’s plinth with red paint and spraying the phrase ’the colony will fall,' while also citing pro-Palestine slogans.
CCTV footage shows four people cutting down the statue at 3.45 a.m. on Feb. 26.
Other businesses have also recently closed because of crime, prompting calls for the city to declare an emergency.
Victorian Police confirmed with the Epoch Times they are investigating the incident.
A 40-year-old Brisbane man has been arrested and charged for allegedly spraying boycott messages on a Woolworths store’s exterior.
The incident occurred on Jan. 15 morning, with vandals painting explicit messages on the store’s exterior.
The office was graffitied with the words ‘dial down the apartheid Bill.’
