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A man was arrested after the statue of late United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London was defaced with red graffiti, the Metropolitan Police reported in a post on Twitter.
The photographs depicted the statue and its base being defaced and carrying slogans such as “Never again”, “Zionist war criminal” and “Globalize the intifada!” Like the messages are written.
“Overnight, the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was painted red,” police wrote in a post Friday.
A woman takes photos of the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, which was defaced overnight with red paint and the words “Free Palestine” in London, England, February 27, 2026. (Reuters/Carlos Jaiso)
Police said, “Officers were on the scene within two minutes of receiving the alert just after 4am. A 38-year-old man has been detained on suspicion of aggravated criminal damage by racially aggravated assault.”
A Dutch activist group claimed credit for the graffiti.
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The statue of Sir Winston Churchill, defaced with red paint and the words “Never again” in Parliament Square, London, England, February 27, 2026. (Reuters/Carlos Jaiso)
A post on Instagram claimed, “On the morning of February 27, the statue of Winston Churchill on Parliament Square was defaced with red paint. This protest was organized and executed by @freethefilton24nl.”
The post contains a pre-recorded statement in which a man says, “My name is Olaix Outis. I am a citizen of the Netherlands.”
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On February 27, 2026, the statue of Churchill in Parliament Square in London was painted red in the early hours of the morning and anti-Israel slogans were chanted, including “Zionist war criminals”, “Stop the genocide”, “Never again is now”, “Globalize the intifada” and in Dutch “Greetings from The Hague”. (Guy Smallman/Getty Images)
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He describes himself as “part of a Dutch action group called Free the Filton 24 NL”, and explains, “I have come to the United Kingdom to dismantle the statue of Winston Churchill, one of the most famous war criminals in history.”
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