Mysterious monument blown up overnight in United States | Abroad

Known as the Georgia Guidestones, the six stone blocks were erected in 1980 in the rural region of the southern United States. It was an anonymous client who had the blocks erected, in mysterious circumstances.

Some, without irony, called the blocks the “American Stonehenge”. The monument attracted the attention of many tourists and other curious, as well as conspiracy theorists.

The messages on the stones called for “seeking harmony with the infinite” or to “unite humanity with a new living language”. Calls were also made to limit humanity to “500 million individuals in perpetual balance with nature”.

During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, “unidentified individuals detonated an explosive device,” the Georgia Investigative Agency (GBI), which is conducting the investigation, said on Twitter. Surveillance footage shows the granite blocks exploding as car lights shine on them. No one was injured.

The police determined that “a large part of the structure” has been destroyed. In the end, the blocks were completely knocked down “for safety reasons,” says the GBI, which published images of a car leaving the site.
The Georgia Tourist Board is promoting the monument, the “Georgia Guidestones”, which stands in the middle of the fields. According to the website of the tourist office, the six-meter-high monument “also constitutes an astronomical calendar”.

Politician Kandiss Taylor, who bit the dust for the Republican primaries ahead of the Georgia governor election in May, welcomed all this destruction of the “satanic” monument. Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, on the other hand, said he deplored the vandalism, because the monument would show that there is indeed a “plot” to limit the world’s population.