Swastikas Daubed On Holocaust Memorial

BERLIN — Berlin police say vandals have daubed swastikas on some of the slabs that make up the German capital's Holocaust memorial.

A police statement says security guards discovered the swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on 12 slabs Saturday lunchtime. Authorities ordered the graffiti's swift removal.

The memorial to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims consists of a field of 2,700 gray slabs situated close to the capital's Brandenburg Gate.

It opened to the public in 2005 and is freely accessible around the clock. Similar vandalism has occurred on several previous occasions.

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[RTIII]

The Perp was dislexic: The hated symbol of which the article may speak and we may not is _backwards­._
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[Emerald1943]

Just goes to show that once a great evil permeates a society, it is almost impossible to root it out. How sad! We must always be on our guard!

[harriettubman]

A bunch of ra*cist, Hit*er wannabes. That's all this is .

[minimalist syntax]

The photo doesn't seem to be the right one for this article. The grave markers have the sta.r and cre.scent and what looks like A.ra.bic writing on them.

[OlgaDavidson]

Those are desecrated Muslim graves in the picture.

[minimalist syntax]

I wonder what the story behind the photo is? This should also be news.

[CaptainHowdy]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/07/1038950239070.html

"P.alestin­ians arrest al-Q.aeda 'poseurs'

December 8 2002

P.alestini­an security forces have arrested a group of P.alestini­ans for collaborating with I.srael and posing as operatives of O.sama bin L.aden's al-Q.aeda t.errorist network, a senior official said yesterday.

The arrests come two days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged al-Q.aeda militants were operating in G.aza and in .Lebanon.

"The P.alestini­an Authority arrested a group of collaborators who confessed they were working for I.srael, posing as al-Q.aeda operatives in the P.alestini­an territories," said the official, on condition of anonymity.

He said the alleged collaborators sought to "discredit the P.alestini­an people, justify every I.sraeli crime and provide reasons to carry out a new (m.ilitary­) a.ggressio­n in the G.aza Strip."

The official did not say how many suspects had been arrested, nor where or when they were nabbed."

[CaptainHowdy]

Well, what do people expect...