Latvia’s leaders condemned on Wednesday an attack by vandals on a Jewish cemetery which left about 100 headstones daubed with white swastikas.
“We absolutely condemn vandalism in Jewish cemeteries and call for everything to be done to find those responsible and repair the damage,” President Valdis Zatlers told a news conference after talks with Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
The Foreign Minister Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis strongly condemns the act of vandalism which has taken place last night in the New Jewish Cemetery. The Foreign Minister commends the operative response by the Riga City Council and the State Police towards eliminating the consequences of the offence and launching investigation. The Minister also expresses hope that as a result of the investigation the offenders guilty of this act of vandalism will be identified and prosecuted.
The Riga city council said in a statement that the acts of vandalism took place in the cemetery in the capital on Tuesday night. It gave no details but Latvian television showed pictures of the grave stones daubed with white swastikas.
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