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Report: Hundreds of Jewish graves vandalized in Ukraine
By DPA

Hundreds of Jewish graves were defiled in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odessa, Interfax news agency reported Tuesday.

An unknown person or persons using spray paint and blunt objects damaged 302 final resting sites in the city's Jewish cemetery, said Dmitry Fuchedzhi, an Odessa police spokesman.
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Two red swastikas were drawn on a memorial to Jews killed during German occupation of the region during 1941-44, along with the words "Congratulations on the Holocaust."

Anti-Semitism in Ukraine is uncommon but not unknown, most frequently in the form of vandalism on Jewish religious buildings, or less often as physical attacks against Jews.

Until the early 1990s, Odessa was home to the Soviet Union's largest Jewish community.

It remains by far the most Jewish city in Ukraine, and the only major Ukrainian metropolis with a Jewish mayor. Anti-Semetism in Odessa is practically unhead of.

"We will find out who did this," Fuchedzhi said. "This is a city with 130 different nationalities and nobody bothers anyone, and now this."

An Odessa court last year found a man guilty of defacing Jewish graves on April 20, an important date to many neo-Nazis.

The judge waived a potentially stiff jail term in the case, and imposed a minor fine instead
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  15.   Response: 6, 7, 8, 9. 00:07  |  THE JACKAL 21/02/07
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