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Last update - 17:27 09/07/2008 Man arrested after spraying graffiti on Berlin's Holocaust memorial By The Associated Press Tags: Anti-Semitism, Holocaust  Berlin police said Wednesday that they arrested a man caught spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on Berlin's Holocaust memorial. A police statement said a security guard found the intoxicated 28-year-old from eastern Germany on Tuesday evening as he was spray-painting four of the slabs that make up the vast memorial. The guard alerted police. According to Wednesday's police statement, the man sprayed words and symbols, some of them with anti-Semitic significance on the slabs. It did not elaborate. Advertisement The memorial to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims is a field of more than 2,700 gray slabs situated close to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. It opened to the public in 2005 and is freely accessible around the clock. Vandalism has been reported there several times. Related articles: Racial tensions rise to surface in mixed Jewish-Muslim district in Paris Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit record high in 2007 Vandals seize, smash items from Holocaust display at N.Y. college Bookmark to del.icio.us   Desert pursuit IDF criticizes Egyptian soldiers over fatal cross-border manhunt. Backing McCain The more religious the voter the more likely he is to support McCain over Obama.   1.   `eastern` Germany 17:22  |  Mike 09/07/08

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