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Danish police charge two men with vandalism over Jewish cemetery desecration

Some stones were overturned and others spattered with green paint last weekend

November 13, 2019 12:10
The gravestones were defaced with green paint

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Two men in Denmark have been charged with vandalism after dozens of graves at a Jewish cemetery were desecrated with graffiti over the weekend.

Several headstones in the 200-year-old Østre graveyard in Randers, on the Danish mainland peninsula of Jutland, were discovered overturned on Saturday.

84 others were found defaced with green paint, although no specific words or symbols were discernible.

Danish police said a 27-year-old man from the city and another 38-year-old from nearby Hobro had been charged with “serious vandalism”.