PCSOs are guarding the Cenotaph in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, after it was vandalised on Tuesday afternoon.
The Rochdale Cenotaph has been vandalised three times this week A war memorial is under police protection after it was sprayed with graffiti reading ‘free Palestine’. PCSOs are guarding the Cenotaph in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, after it was vandalised on Tuesday afternoon – apparently the third attack in a week. Tensions are rising ahead of Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday as the Metropolitan Police has asked pro-Palestine demonstrators not to protest in the capital on Saturday.
’ Chief Superintendent Nicky Porter from Greater Manchester Police said: ‘We join communities across Rochdale in being deeply saddened by the incidents at the Cenotaph – the memorial is a particularly poignant reminder of those who have given their lives to our country, particularly at this time year. ‘We will not tolerate the criminal disrespect of the town’s Memorial Gardens and I hope the action we have already taken in response to these two incidents reassures our communities of that.
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