Statue of Anne Frank vandalized with red paint in Amsterdam

A statue of the Jewish girl Anna Frank located in a square in Amsterdam has been vandalized with red paint, used to cover the figure's hands and write "Free Gaza" on the pedestal, according to Dutch public radio and television NOS.

A police spokesperson indicated that a passer-by discovered the graffiti on the statue located on the Merwedeplein, in the southern district of Amsterdam, according to NOS.

The municipality will be in charge of cleaning the statue, while the Police have already launched an investigation into the event.

At the beginning of July, graffiti appeared on the same statue. On that occasion, the feet were painted red and the word “Gaza” was written on the pedestal.

The statue is located on the Merwedeplein because Anne Frank lived there with her parents and sister between 1933 and 1942, before being forced to hide in a building in the Dutch capital due to the Nazi persecution of the Jews.

Precisely this Sunday marked 80 years since Anne Frank was discovered in her hiding place in Amsterdam and arrested along with several people by the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police.

He died of typhus in February 1945, in the concentration camp of Bergen Belsen (Germany) and his father, the only survivor of the family, later found his diary and published it as an important testimony of the Holocaust. EFE