Karl Marx’s tomb was vandalised in a suspected “hammer attack” over the weekend and “will never be the same again.”
Marks appeared on the marble plaque situated under the bronze bust of the communist philosopher’s tomb, in Highgate Cemetery in north London, with the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust charity condemning the “deliberate attack on the memory of Karl Marx.”
Trust chief executive Ian Dungavell said the attack on the Grade I-listed monument, which puts it on a par with the most important buildings in the country, was “deliberate and sustained.”
“Over the years all sorts of things have happened to it, there was even a bomb left close to the memorial, but to be honest this looks like it could be harder to repair, because it’s damage to the marble.”
The marble plaque was first used on the grave of Marx’s wife Jenny von Westphalen in 1881 and shows the dates of the births and deaths of Marx, von Westphalen, their daughter Eleanor, grandson Harry Longuet and of their housekeeper Helene Demuth.
A police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini on an Italian beach, 1957
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