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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Katherine Gray

Grenfell Tower stairwell handprints to be saved but Arabic script ‘hasn’t been preserved’

Haunting handprints from inside Grenfell Tower are set to be saved but it’s been revealed that the government has “not preserved” a piece of Arabic text from the wall of one of its stairwells.

In a letter seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), Director for Grenfell Community and Memorial, Camilla Sheldon, informs families that Arabic text from floor 18, reading Allahu Akbar – which means God is the greatest – had been taken to the second site and was “not available to preserve”.

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