Swastikas painted on shops and buildings in Stokes Croft
SHOPKEEPERS in Stokes Croft woke up to find more than 50 white swastikas daubed on walls, windows and cars in the area.
The offensive fascist symbols had been painted by someone overnight, in what looked like an indiscriminate manner.
Shop owners and workers were forced to clean off the graffiti before opening up for the day.
May Gurney cleaned off 42 of the symbols associated with Nazi Germany on behalf of the council, leaving only two still visible by 11am.
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The shops vandalised included the Hooper House cafe, The Croft club, the Love Bristol Pop-up Bakery and the Runcible Spoon cafe on Nine Tree Hill.
Co-owner of the Hooper House, Andy Persson, had to clean four swastikas off the front of his shop.
"We've had people come and scratch the windows, but we've never had swastikas before," he said. "Like everyone else, I find them very offensive."
The pop-up bakery had five swastikas daubed on it, including a large one on a window.
Esme Wadie, who works at the charity-tun shop, said: "They were everywhere this morning and two of my housemates had them on their cars which were parked on Sydenham Road.
"We've been targeted with lots of graffiti before – we had a big paragraph of writing on the window once – but nothing like this.
"I don't know whether the people who did it are Nazis or they're accusing the people round here of being Nazis?
"It's hard to know why they would do something like this."
A man called Ben, 35, of St Paul's, spotted a number of the swastikas on his way to work and reported them to the council.
"I think it's absolutely disgusting," he said. "We all know the swastika is a symbol of hatred.
"There were so many it looked to me like it was some sort of campaign by whoever did it."
Anyone who knows who is responsible should call police on 101.
Comments
by pdiddy
Wednesday, October 24 2012, 3:07PM
“What about ****? Is that a dark evil form of "ism"?”
by brianblessed3
Friday, October 19 2012, 8:10PM
“"CharlesBridge
The best rule of thumb is that it ends in "ism" a dark evil force is behind it."
Pacifism. Your move.”
by katachua
Friday, October 19 2012, 5:45PM
“Yes, right, these weren't really BAD Nazis - they were the soft, cuddly kind.
(That was irony, by the way, for the benefit of the idiots here who seek to justify them)”
by Not_Selfish
Friday, October 19 2012, 5:19PM
“Oh my word! You lot took the chance to job right up onto your soap boxes didn't you...
It's a Swastika people. 45+ of them. The pictures in the Post show two, the only ones left after they were cleaned off! Most of them where done with a stencil - some builds had up to 10 on one wall! There was a racist rant on painted onto a wall ripping into "N*gers" living in the area. Go find a camera, a mic and make your own documentary about Stokes Croft if you want to make yourselves heard. Don't jump on the back of this serious incident with your "Oh I know a little bit about history" rants and "Look what the government have done..." Its people like you who still back and do nothing whilst the far right and their foot soldiers rise once again to rain terror on the streets (Physical, verbal and visual). Focus on that happened here, and how it might affect other people!! It's not about you lot. This isn't a time for you to bang on about how crimes of humanity are being carried out by governments and dictators, this is a time for you to wake up and realise! Realise that for some people, seeing systematic painting of the Swastika in their community leaves them feeling frighten and scared. You really are a bunch of self-centred, wannabe, couldn't careless keyboard warriors! Go get a heart and some compassion. You lot make me sick!!!”
by CharlesBridge
Friday, October 19 2012, 4:57PM
“There are some very naive people about...
The best rule of thumb is that it ends in "ism" a dark evil force is behind it.
A few mind blowing facts that most likely have been overlooked by many. The sieg heil cry was fashioned from Harvard hurrah hurrah! fact.
There were two revolutions in Russia the lesser and the greater, the Russian world for greater is Bolshie.
Lenin travelled from Zurich on a sealed train to do his job and Trotsky (real name Bronstein) from Nova Scotia with the vast sum of that time $10K in his pockets, he had been in NYC all summer, what a great city to become a communist ;-)
Joseph Stalin lodged at Tower House in London in 1907, he was mixing it with the Socialists.... now did you ever know that uncle Joe was in London? And did you know that in 1902 he was an employee of an astronomically wealthy family in banking beginning with the letter R?
Examine the economics of the Nazi and Communist systems, in the end the individual is reduced to zero, sounds a lot like New Labour to me.
There are dark things out there, did you ever wonder where all of the Tsars gold went after the family was wiped out? He was the richest man in the world back then...
There are agents and there a links and fact is this, don't believe too many things at face value, I dare you to Google some of this and see what you find.
Makes the idiot spray can clown story seem like a drop in the deep blue see....”
by graham_hutter
Friday, October 19 2012, 4:27PM
“Time for the old religions to reclaim their symbols. Any act of vandalism should be punished.”
by Sam123
Friday, October 19 2012, 3:24PM
“by artgladFriday, October 19 2012, 2:15AM
"It's alarming but not surprizing that the some of the contributions from the regulars on this website are happy with nazi graffi
Yes I know what you are thinking about "Nazi" National Socialists! Oh how they dont like that and the fact their hero Stalin fought with the Nazis for two year invading Finland and Poland for Hitler!
And Stalin's Socialist murdering 20,000 polish officers in one day! We even had politicians that where card carrying communists after WW2 who later snaked into the Labour party and many still active hiding in the shadows "Creepy"!”
by JamseTipper
Friday, October 19 2012, 12:24PM
“I must admit I find the fake and false braying irritating little idiots doing their 'recreational slumming' (as they call it) in the area on mummy & daddy's money far more offensive than some kid's tiny bit of graffiti. This area used to be an authentic community, now it's completely fake.”
by badtothebone
Friday, October 19 2012, 12:09PM
“@Bristol_First
My thoughts exactly”
by Bristol_First
Friday, October 19 2012, 12:03PM
“I love the faux outrage of Nathan Barley clones of stokes croft.
So it's an outrage that some dope scrawled a 3 inch swastika on a wall. But its perfectly OK for a bunch of white middle-class inbred toffs to ethnically cleanse the area ?
@”