The statue of Father António Vieira, installed in June 2017 at Largo Trindade Coelho, in Lisbon, appeared this Thursday vandalized with the word “decolonization” painted in red.
The work in question resulted from a protocol between the Lisbon City Council (CML) and Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (SCML) for “the requalification of Largo Trindade Coelho in 2009, in which SCML assumed responsibility for the design and execution of the monument, “according to Lisboa.pt page.
Already in 2017 a protest against the statue, then erected, was stopped by a group of extreme right.
Vandalism has been occurring in other cities in the US and Europe, following the death of the American George Floyd.
Father António Vieira (1608-1697) dedicated himself to defending the rights of indigenous peoples in Brazil and fighting slavery.
A statue of Scouting founder Robert Baden-Powell in Poole, in southern England, It will be removed by the authority to prevent the target antiracist activists, but locals mobilized on Thursday to protect it.
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