Hungarian police arrested two suspects in connection with the weekend desecration of a Jewish cemetery in the town of Szombathely. The suspects were described as members of the neo-Nazi Hungarist Movement, which views itself as the successors of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, which collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. The desecration, in which vandals painted swastikas and anti-Semitic drawing on 15 graves, was denounced Monday by Hungarian President Arpad Goncz.
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