The Police reports that last year 29 Jewish cemetery desecrations occurred in Germany – the lowest number since 2000.
The Der Tagesspiegel newspaper reports that antisemitic delinquents desecrated over the course of the last year 29 Jewish cemeteries across Germany. That’s the lower number since the year 2000. This data was published following the government’s reply to an interpellation submitted by the Vice-President of the Bundestag, Petra Pau (left-wing party). The newspaper has the answer. Most of the incidents (5) were carried out in Lower Saxony. The other regions where incidents took place are Nordrhein, Bavaria, Hesse and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, three incidents in each of those German federal states.
One incident occurred in Berlin, but still no violation occurred in the Jewish cemeteries of Baden-Württemberg, Bremen, Hamburg, Saarland, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
Until now, the police managed to solve only three cases, two in Bavaria and one in Brandenburg.
From the Federal Government’s response it’s not clear whether 29 cemeteries were on the whole attacked or whether some of them were attacked more than once. The number of incidents against Jewish cemeteries since the year 2000, including the 29 assaults perpetrated against Jewish cemeteries in 2012, increases to 612 incidents. The police informed that most of the incidents took place during the years 2008 (63 incidents), 2003 (61 incidents) and 2000 (61 incidents).
