Friday, May 20, 2016

UK: Vandals deface graves in Jewish cemetery in Manchester

The Times of Israel reports:

Vandals destroyed headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Manchester on Wednesday, in what a senior police officer called “a sickening act of anti-Semitism.”

Police found 14 headstones knocked over and smashed at the Blackley cemetery, in northeast Manchester, the Guardian reported. 

Police are treating the vandalism as a hate crime, although no suspects have yet been apprehended, Superintendent Wasim Chaudhry, head of Greater Manchester Police’s North Manchester Division, said in a statement.

Fallen gravestones in the children's burial ground at Blackley cemetery (picture from a previous attack)
Jewish Chronicle: Fallen gravestones in the children's burial ground at Blackley cemetery (picture from a previous attack)


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