Georgia – Jewish Cemetery Vandalized in Batumi

Unknown perpetrators vandalized a Jewish cemetery outside Batumi in the Adjaran Autonomous Republic.

Damage includes a spray painted swastika on a headstone.
Police investigation is ongoing.

“I could never have imagined this would happen here,” Emil Krupnik, head of the Association of Georgian-Jewish Relations in Batumi, said. “Local residents here were also alarmed by this incident.”
“Nothing similar has ever happened in the past here,” Nodar Jorbenadze, director of the cemetery, told Tbilisi-based Mze TV.

Source: www.civil.ge
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