Vandals wrecked 50 tombstones and damaged 14 groves of children in the Jewish cemetery at Cham, an Upper Bavarian town near the Czech border. Police investigating the crime suspect that a neo-Nazi group was responsible. Damage at the historic cemetery was estimated at $130,000.
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