Vandalism of posters for the «Heart of Gaza» exhibition in Bricherasio

Date of the event:

Between 10 and 12 November 2026 in Bricherasio, a municipality of the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Pinerolese area, posters announcing the «Heart of Gaza» exhibition — a travelling exhibition of drawings made by children from Gaza about the war, promoted by the Leonardo Sciascia association and scheduled from 14 November at the Aldo Moro cultural centre — are repeatedly removed, torn down and damaged.

The events

Between the night and the morning of Wednesday 11 November, several posters are removed, including some that had just been put up at bus stops and a billboard placed at the roundabout near the former wine cooperative. The association's volunteers put them back up in the evening and the following morning, including under the arcades of the town hall and in Piazza Castelvecchio, but within an hour they are taken down again.[2]

The following day, Thursday 12 November, the posters are again torn down and thrown on the ground at various points around the municipality, including in front of schools; some noticeboards are punched and the face of a child depicted on one poster is torn off.[1]

Reactions

The president of the Leonardo Sciascia association, Lilly Di Martino, calls the episode "disconcerting," recalling the efforts made to bring the exhibition to Bricherasio and stressing that the initiative promotes a message of peace.[1] The association reports the events to the Carabinieri and the local police, decides to keep watch over the exhibition during opening hours and receives offers from some shopkeepers to display the posters in their shop windows and from a volunteer to reprint them free of charge; support is also expressed by the councillor for culture, Federica Listino.[2] Di Martino also recalls that in October of the previous year a peace flag displayed in the town centre by the same volunteers had been set on fire.[1]

Sources

  1. Bricherasio: vandalizzati i manifesti della mostra HeART of GAZA — Eco del Chisone, 12 November 2026
  2. Spariscono altre locandine di 'Heart of Gaza': 'Le riappendiamo ma dopo poco non ci sono più' — TorinoOggi, 11 November 2026

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CrimeMunicipalities of the Metropolitan City of Turin

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