Some 110 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of Buenos Aires were destroyed early Tuesday morning, the World Jewish Congress reported.
The vandalism of the cemetery in Berazategui interrupts a period of relative calm with regard to anti-Semitic acts, Manuel Tenenbaum, director of the Latin American Jewish Congress, told the WJC.
The DAIA, or Delegation of Israelite Associations of Argentina, has publicly called for an investigation of the event.
David Goldberg, president of the DAIA, the representative body of Argentine Jewry, was quoted as saying that the vandals had hammered the tombstones to pieces but left no graffiti.
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