The plaque in the garden of the " Sardinian Righteous among the Nations " in Sassari was smeared. Spray paint marks cover more than half of the recognition dedicated to those who risked their lives to save Jews persecuted by Nazi-fascism.

A not new act of vandalism against the work, already subject in the past of other stains and writings written with the spray can. The plaque was inaugurated last June in the upper part of the public gardens by the municipal administration and on that occasion some trees were also planted to commemorate the seven righteous Sardinians recognized by Yad Vashem , the official Israeli memorial to the victims of the holocaust .

A motion voted unanimously by the city council on January 25, 2021 for the construction of the first garden of the righteous also in Sassari to launch the initiative. Now the scar on the work , and on the memory of the civil heroes of our land, is added to other similar incivility such as the recent one to the detriment of the monument to Vittorio Emanuele in Piazza d'Italia covered with a blasphemous sentence.

To clean the statue, the intervention of specialized workers of the Archaeological Superintendency of Sassari was required.

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