The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) is conscious and actively investigating an act of vandalism on the Nationwide Holocaust Monument within the LeBreton Flats space of Ottawa.
Police say the incident occurred final night time and the monument was defaced with pink paint that reads the phrases “FEED ME”.
The Hate and Bias Crime Unit is investigating and asks anybody with info to contact them at 613-236-1222, extension 5625.
“We had been disgusted to be taught that the Nationwide Holocaust Monument was defaced in a single day,” Adam Silver, CEO & President of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa stated in a assertion launched on Fb.
“This isn’t simply vandalism, it’s an act of desecration in opposition to the reminiscence of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of different victims murdered within the Holocaust. It’s an assault on Holocaust remembrance and on the dignity of survivors, their households, and our total group,” Sliver stated.
OPS treats “incidents of this nature severely and acknowledges the profound affect they’ve on the group.”
Staff from a cleanup crew unfold a tarp to cowl the phrases ‘FEED ME’ on the Nationwide Holocaust Monument in Ottawa on Monday, June 9, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Native politicians have shared their ideas on the act of vandalism observed this morning in Ottawa.
Ottawa Main, Mark Sutcliffe, took to X saying“It’s stunning and disturbing to see it defaced as we speak. Protests and demonstrations are a vital a part of our democracy. Disfiguring a sacred monument in a means that may traumatize victims, survivors and their households just isn’t.”
“I’m reaching out to Ottawa’s Jewish group and different religion leaders, and to the Ottawa Police Service. Let’s proceed to unite collectively as a group to combat in opposition to hatred in all its varieties.”
Space MP Yasir Naqvi condemns the act saying it’s “a disgraceful, antisemitic act of vandalism.”
There was no info supplied concerning any suspects on the time of writing.
