Winston Churchill statue in Paris desecrated with blood red paint on liberation anniversary

Telegraph (UK) ^ | August 20, 2009 | Peter Allen

[Cheap_Hessian]

French anti-war campaigners have desecrated a statue of Winston Churchill in central Paris on the anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi rule.

The night time attack saw the bronze hands of the £250,000 statue daubed in red paint.

The initials RH were also daubed on the statue, perhaps a reference to Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, who flew to Britain at the height of the Second World War to allegedly try and make peace.

Instead, Churchill had him thrown in prison in 1941, and the war continued for a further four years.

After the war, Hess was tried at Nuremberg and jailed for life for war crimes. He died, aged 93, in Spandau Prison, 22 years ago this week in 1987.

Some in France view Churchill as a war criminal himself because of his decision to scuttle the Vichy French fleet in Tunisia rather than let it fall into the hands of Third Reich forces.

He is also remembered for ordering the Allied bombing of occupied France, which led to thousands of French deaths.

[Bookie1066]

There were two frenchmen in the resistance. Everyone else worked for the NAZI’s. I say we just France back to the Germans.

[dfwgator]

And much of the French Resistance were Communists loyal to Stalin.

[Oztrich Boy]

That would be the Italian Army Knife - look at the flag symbol (green, white, and red).

My monitor screen shows blue, white, red. Sorry about yours

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from August 20, 2009.

French anti-war campaigners have desecrated a statue of Winston Churchill in central Paris on the anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi rule... Some in France view Churchill as a war criminal himself because of his decision to scuttle the Vichy French fleet in Tunisia rather than let it fall into the hands of Third Reich forces. He is also remembered for ordering the Allied bombing of occupied France, which led to thousands of French deaths.

Sounds like these "anti-war campaigners" would prefer a statue of Hitler.

[dfwgator]

I hate Paris Nazis.