Neo-Nazi vandals destroyed three gravestones at a Jewish cemetery and defaced a monument to Jewish deportees in southeastern Holland over the weekend.
Police are investigating an unknown group calling itself the National Socialist People’s Front, which claimed responsibility for the desecration in an anonymous telephone call to a local newspaper.
The targets were the Jewish cemetery at Beek, near the Belgian border, where three gravestones were demolished and eight daubed with swastikas.
A monument to Jewish deportees in nearby Meerssen was also smeared with swastikas.
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