"These sections on the walls in the stairwell hold the voices of that night - and we will not let them be erased, silenced, or this tragedy be sanitised. Karim Khalloufi, who lost his sister in the tragedy, expressed the families' determination to preserve physical evidence and memories from the devastating fire."
The Grenfell Tower fire in west London on June 14, 2017, claimed 72 lives in the 24-storey social housing block. Deconstruction began in September and is expected to take two years. Families of victims are urgently requesting the government preserve sections of stairwell walls that contain handprints believed to belong to victims or survivors, along with an Arabic inscription reading "Allahu Akbar." These physical marks represent voices from that night. Families have initiated legal proceedings to prevent erasure of this tragedy and ensure these memorial elements are protected rather than destroyed during demolition.
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Read at www.independent.co.uk
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