A Holocaust memorial in Brussels was vandalized. The gate of the memorial’s crypt was pulled out, documents were destroyed, windows broken and an urn containing ashes from Auschwitz victims was emptied, the European Jewish Press reported. Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said he is shocked by the attack.
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