"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. She tells residents that the Allahu Akbar text was taken down from the tower in December 2025. It has not been preserved and will not be used in any memorial."
"We are dismayed that commitments made by the previous Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, and her predecessors, both during and prior to 2025, and which we referred to in our reports, were disregarded like this. That happened without any discussion, with the affected community, about the approach being taken to the deconstruction of the upper floors of the Tower."
"We see this as yet another betrayal of the Grenfell community's trust and of the open ways of working that we, the Memorial Commission, have sought to create with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), and since establishing the Commission in 2019; and despite the part played by the government in the deaths of our loved ones."
The government failed to preserve Arabic text reading 'Allahu Akbar' (God is the greatest) from the 18th floor stairwell of Grenfell Tower during deconstruction. The text was removed in December 2025 and taken to a second site where it was not preserved. The Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission was not consulted about this decision and criticized the government for disregarding previous commitments made by former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. The Commission views this as another betrayal of the community's trust and a failure to involve affected residents in decisions about preserving elements from the tower. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government declined to comment on whether a preservation request had been made prior to deconstruction.
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