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A mysterious granite monument destroyed in the middle of the night in the southern United States

The monument, dubbed the “American Stonehenge,” was something of a local attraction, attracting many tourists and sightseers. He had also become the target of conspiracy theories.

Authorities in the US state of Georgia were on Thursday looking for those responsible for the explosion which partially destroyed the day before a strange granite monument engraved with esoteric inscriptions in twelve languages, judged “satanicby some conservative Christians.

These six blocks of stone were raised in 1980 in this rural region of the southern United States, at the request of an anonymous sponsor and in enigmatic circumstances. Dubbed without irony the “American Stonehenge», the monument attracted many tourists and curious people. But he had also become the target of conspiracy theories. On the stone, inscriptions calling for “seek harmony with infinity» or to «unite humanity with a living new languagerubbed shoulders with others inviting in particular tomaintain humanity at less than 500,000,000 individuals, in permanent balance with nature“.

A car captured on surveillance videos

On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, “unknown individuals set off an explosive“said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), in charge of the investigations, on Twitter. CCTV footage released by authorities shows the granite boulders partially exploding in the bluish light of car headlights. No one was hurt. Investigators later found that the explosion had destroyed “a large part of the structure“, which was finally completely shot down “For safety reasons“, specified the agency, by publishing images of a vehicle leaving the site.

Located in the middle of the fields, the monument, named “Georgia Guidestones“, was put forward by the tourist office of the State, which explained on its website that the monument of six meters high was “also an astronomical calendar“. It was located near the small town of Elberton, which refers to itself as “the granite capital of the world“.

Kandiss Taylor, unsuccessful candidate in the Republican primary for the post of governor of Georgia in May, welcomed the destruction of this monument on Wednesday.satanic“. Alex Jones, a far-right conspiratorial figure who had repeatedly denounced the existence of this “evil edifice“Nevertheless regretted its destruction on Wednesday, saying that its presence was useful in proving the existence of a plot to”limit the world population“.

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