The famous Reformation Wall in Geneva, Switzerland has been vandalised. Tourists walking through the Parc des Bastions on July 15th discovered the damage.
The monument is one of the main tourist attractions of the city in which Jean Calvin, one of the key French Protestant Reformers, developed his work after 1536. The wall, inaugurated in 1909, also honours the influence of three other famous figures of the reform: Guillaume Farel, Théodore de Bèze and John Knox.
The paint was thrown on the monument in various colours.
Police said no-one had claimed the attack. According to local website LemanBleu, the city council of Geneva will file a criminal complaint. Staff working in the park said the monument would be cleaned as soon as possible.
There have been a number of acts of vandalism against the Protestant monument in the past. According to newspaper Le Matin, in March, feminist activists wrote graffiti on the wall reading, “Where are the women?”
