Community comes together against Nazi graffiti

People left messages of hope and positivity at Chalk Support

People came together over the bank holiday weekend to leave messages of solidarity and positivity in response to Nazi graffiti that was spray-painted in Jersey last month.

The equality charity Liberate Jersey worked with the arts establishment The Stoodio to put on Chalk Support in St Helier on Saturday.

Two men were later arrested over the series of graffiti incidents that included a primary school being painted with a swastika.

Dozens of people came together to join in the creativity in Cyril Le Marquand Court.

Kaye Nicholson from Liberate says the event sent out the right message about the community

Kaye Nicholson, from Liberate, helped organise the event and was involved with some of the artwork on Saturday.

She said: "It's great to have had people of all ages here," adding: "Everyone can come down here and spread some love and some joy."

Ms Nicholson added: "We know what we saw last month was not representative of our island community and this is an opportunity to show that and counter it."

The artwork will remain on Cyril Le Marquand Court for the next two weeks for people to add to it.

Hayley Gibaut from The Stoodio was moved by people's responses to the event

Hayley Gibaut is one of the co-founders of The Stoodio, which offers workshops for the local community in partnership with ArtHouse Jersey and Andium Homes.

She said: "This is to clarify that Jersey is full of different nationalities and so many different people so this is all for love."

Ms Gibaut added, "it's honestly beautiful", and that "this is exactly what we wanted to see after that graffiti went up because that doesn't represent us".