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Vandals hang severed pig's head outside entrance to Jewish cemetery in Germany
By Asaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Anti-Semetism, Jewish World 

A severed pig's head was hung on the entrance to a Jewish cemetery in Germany over the weekend, next to a sign written in pig's blood reading "six million lies," part of a series of acts of vandalism over the weekend that police suspect were carried out by neo-Nazis.

The cemetery was located in the city of Gotha, and a picture of the hanging pig's head was featured on the front cover of the German daily Bild.

The Bild article reported that a similar incident happened in 2003, when a group of neo-Nazis calling themselves "Combat 18" hung a pig's head at a Jewish cemetery in the area.
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Also over the weekend, unknown assailants in the nearby town of Erfurt splashed red paint across a memorial board for deceased members of the local Jewish community. In an additional incident, a swastika was daubed in red paint across the front entrance of a synagogue in the town of Gorlitz in eastern Germany, only nine days after the building had reopened following renovations.

Around 800 Anti-Semitic crimes have been reported in Germany over the past year.

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