Dozens of houses, shops, and walls along Le Loi Boulevard in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City have been smeared with graffiti, causing great annoyance to the facility owners and defacing the appearance of this central thoroughfare.

The facades of more than 50 properties with roll-up doors along the boulevard were found to be covered in graffiti of various colors and shapes.

The largest piece of graffiti is probably over one meter in length.

Aside from roll-up doors, plenty of walls, electricity transformer boxes, and bus stations have become victims of graffiti vandals.

Lots of local residents and international visitors expressed their discontent each time they passed by the graffiti-covered properties.

Hong Thu, aged 43 and residing along Le Loi, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that her house’s overhead doors were smeared with spray paint and graffiti over a year ago.

Thu said that she could no longer remove all of the graffiti pieces as such acts of vandalism have been on the rise.

Hoang Bao, a 56-year-old resident in District 1, who often goes jogging along this street, also voiced his concern over the vandalism, saying that the incomprehensible graffiti look unattractive and sully the cityscape.

Many other public properties in the southern hub were targeted by graffiti vandals.

The city has been grappling with widespread graffiti in recent years, with many traffic infrastructure facilities, as well as the walls of schools, hospitals, and government agency headquarters, being defaced with spray paint.

Last year, railcars of the city’s under-construction metro line No. 1 were vandalized on April 30 at Long Binh Depot in Thu Duc City under the jurisdiction of Ho Chi Minh City.

Two railcars on this metro line had been defaced by graffiti in June 2022, but local authorities have not handled the vandal(s).

Below are photos of the graffiti vandalism hitting properties along Le Loi Boulevard in downtown Ho Chi Minh City:

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