VANDALS have attacked L’Ancresse Stores - leaving behind graffiti in the form of large black swastikas. Husband-and–wife owner-managers Paul and Rosemary Cataroche were shocked to arrive at work on Wednesday morning to be confronted by the damage on the walls of the building facing the common.
‘All the customers have noticed,’ said Mrs Cataroche. ‘It’s terrible.
‘I was shocked to discover the graffiti. It just gives us more work to do.
‘And the fact that the graffiti is what it is - swastikas - it just really isn’t very nice, is it?
‘Our children are often here at work with me and it’s really not very nice for them to see it.’
Vale deputy Dave Jones said that it was a sad indictment of the way the island was going.
‘I doubt very much that the people behind it were around when the swastika actually meant something,’ he said.
‘It’s highly offensive, particularly to those who did live through the war.
‘We have to concentrate on punishing these offenders and I urge retailers not to sell these people the spray paint.
‘Of course, they might still find it in the garden shed, but shops certainly need to be more vigilant over who they sell this spray paint to.’
* The graffiti was sprayed on the shop within hours of the launch of the Respect Guernsey campaign, the aim of which is to tackle criminal damage, a crime described by police chief George Le Page as the bane of island life.
Article posted on 25th January, 2008 - 12.00am
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