Vandalism against public property with ultra motives continues to make headlines in Lanzarote. A bench painted with the colors of the LGTBI flag in the coastal town of Punta Mujeres has dawned this week painted with a large orange swastika and the phrase "long live vox."
The swastika was one of the symbols resignified by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and used by the architect of the Holocaust, the genocide promoted against the Jews during World War II, as a distinctive sign of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Nazism promoted anti-Semitism, the existence of an "Aryan race", against science itself, racial persecution and the mass murder of people in gas chambers, mass shootings and diseases. The Nazis ended the lives of six million Jews and persecuted Soviet prisoners of war, ethnic Poles, Roma and people with functional diversity, among other groups.
After the fall of the Nazi regime in Germany, the swastika has been used by far-right movements around the world to accompany their slogans.
This act takes place after the political formation Nueva Canarias denounced this Monday that the Palestinian flag that was painted on an abandoned wall at the entrance of Costa Teguise, when accessing from Arrecife, on Avenida de Las Palmeras, had been replaced by a Cross of Burgundy.
These graffiti are also added to the appearance a few months ago of several xenophobic graffiti in Arrecife, where you can read "no Moors" and "long live vox" in some buildings on Manolo Millares street and El Reducto avenue.
