Prague wall dedicated to John Lennon painted over

After Lennon's death in 1980 the wall on Kampa Island became a symbol of freedom.

Lennon’s fans used to meet there to light candles, lay flowers, cover wall with short inscriptions, drawings, verses of The Beatles songs. Under socialism, the government painted the wall over a few times, but people revived it, notes Prague Express.

Nowadays the wall is one of the tourist attractions of the Czech Republic capital.

And recently it has been painted over by unknown vandals, leaving just a single message on white background: Wall is over!

The wall's owner, the Sovereign Order of Malta, is taking legal action.

According to the District Office in Prague 1, the wall was painted over at night November 17. New messages, including The wall is never over immediately began to appear there.

Later probable initiators and executors of the wall painting stressed on Facebook that they did not mean to commit an act of vandalism but that it was "an art project."

"25 years ago one big totalitarian wall fell down. Project Wall is over! has to remind about those events. Students of art schools thus paid tribute to the events of 17 November and provided space for creative artists of the new generation."

Authors of those words also recalled that under previous regime the wall was repainted several times, but it was covered with new pictures and inscriptions very quickly.