Vandals desecrated two tombstones in the Jewish cemetery in the eastern Romanian city of Galati, Romanian Television reported Monday. In another development on the same day, followers of Iron Guard leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu erected a cross at the site where the Romanian fascist leader was assassinated in 1938.
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