Vandals who smashed about 50 tombstones in a 400-year-old Jewish cemetery here were hunted today by police who asked the public help in their hunt.
Fuerth Jewish leaders called the wreckage “a sadistic work of destruction.” Police said that the extent of the damage indicated that the vandals must have spent several hours smashing the grave markers with crowbars and sledgehammers.
In Glessen, police announced today they had traced three 10-year-old boys as the culprits responsible for the desecration of a Jewish cemetery two weeks ago in Assenheim. They turned over 25 tombstones. The police said no anti-Semitic motives had been found for the vandalism. It was also reported that a Jewish cemetery in Gross-karten was desecrated over the weekend.
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