Karl Marx's London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Karl Marx's London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack

Friends of Highgate Cemetery calls attack a ‘particularly inarticulate form of political comment’

Matthew Weaver
Tue 5 Feb 2019 13.06 GMT Last modified on Tue 5 Feb 2019 13.36 GMT

The tomb of Karl Marx at London’s Highgate cemetery has been vandalised in a targeted attack that means the Grade I-listed monument will “never be the same again”.

The suspected vandal damaged a marble plaque which was taken from Marx’s original 1881 gravestone and incorporated into the 1954 monument.

Images of the defaced memorial, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year, show what appears to be damage done by a hammer to the lettering of Marx’s name and the marble on which it is mounted.

Ian Dungavell, the chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, condemned the attack as “an appalling thing to do” and a “particularly inarticulate form of political comment”, warning that the tomb would be permanently scarred.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/05/karl-marx-london-grave-vandalised-suspected-hammer-attack-highgate-cemetery

[Turbineguy]

1. Great-great-grandchild

of an angry husband perhaps?

[marble falls]

2. I've seen worse successfully restored. Pretty senseless thing to do.

[genxlib]

3. Sad

I have visited this spot. It is in a Victorian Cemetery that is fascinating to visit. One of the better lesser-known places to go in London. Great for B&W photography.