Manchester: youths who desecrated the cemetery arrested
City police arrested two youths and an adult who brutally desecrated tombstones in the Jewish cemetery • "sickening and cruel nationalist"
- Yoel Bitelman
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Disbelief in the Jewish community in Manchester: Manchester Police on Friday arrested two suspects for allegedly desecrating two weeks ago the city's Jewish cemetery, broke forty tombstones and painted anti-Semitic graffiti on the gravestones.
It turned out that these are two boys aged 13 and a 30 year old skinhead. Estimated damage is a hundred thousand Euros.
Brand Freeman, who decided to visit the grave of his mother, who is buried in the cemetery after learning about the damage told that not only his mother's tombstone was damaged but the graves of seven other family members had been crushed and broken. After the visit, Freeman expressed and said: "It was a diabolical and disgusting act to do this to the cemetery."
Police opened an investigation immediately after it became clear that the damage at the cemetery happened at two stages in the week, day after day. Police turned to the residents for all information about the event.
A non-Jew who witnessed the event brought about a breakthrough in the investigation and arrest of the two boys. The man said he was on his way to another cemetery when he noticed two boys and an adult in his 30s with a shaved head getting into the Jewish cemetery, then he heard the noise of construction and innocently thought that these renovations are performed nearby, but then remembered that it is Saturday and Saturday do not work in the Jewish cemetery, So curiosity grew, he looked over the fence at the cemetery and saw the children break the tombstones and laughing and jeering.
The man quickly called the police, but the police, he said, came to another cemetery and found nothing, and thus missed the youngsters who meantime managed to destroy and break the tombstones.
The boys were released on bail until the end of the month. The date the court will hear the matter. Police Chief Mike Reid described the desecration of the Jewish cemetery as an event "sickening cruel nationalist," he added, saying that the police are treating the incident as a hatred event, punished him severely.
It turned out that these are two boys aged 13 and a 30 year old skinhead. Estimated damage is a hundred thousand Euros.
Brand Freeman, who decided to visit the grave of his mother, who is buried in the cemetery after learning about the damage told that not only his mother's tombstone was damaged but the graves of seven other family members had been crushed and broken. After the visit, Freeman expressed and said: "It was a diabolical and disgusting act to do this to the cemetery."
Police opened an investigation immediately after it became clear that the damage at the cemetery happened at two stages in the week, day after day. Police turned to the residents for all information about the event.
A non-Jew who witnessed the event brought about a breakthrough in the investigation and arrest of the two boys. The man said he was on his way to another cemetery when he noticed two boys and an adult in his 30s with a shaved head getting into the Jewish cemetery, then he heard the noise of construction and innocently thought that these renovations are performed nearby, but then remembered that it is Saturday and Saturday do not work in the Jewish cemetery, So curiosity grew, he looked over the fence at the cemetery and saw the children break the tombstones and laughing and jeering.
The man quickly called the police, but the police, he said, came to another cemetery and found nothing, and thus missed the youngsters who meantime managed to destroy and break the tombstones.
The boys were released on bail until the end of the month. The date the court will hear the matter. Police Chief Mike Reid described the desecration of the Jewish cemetery as an event "sickening cruel nationalist," he added, saying that the police are treating the incident as a hatred event, punished him severely.
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