An 18-year-old youth was sentenced here to payment of a 50-pound fine or a 50-day jail term for daubing a swastika on the synagogue in Bulawayo, The sentence was the first one handed down for swastika daubing by a Southern Rhodesian court since the recent outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents.
The youth had also painted the slogan, “Yiddish swine, Praus,” on the synagogue building. In defense of his action, the youth claimed that he “felt bored” and thought it would be fun to paint a swastika on a synagogue.
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