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Krasnoyarsk, Russia - Cemetery Vandals Sentenced |
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Jun 26, 2008 at 06:56 AM
News Source: fsumonitor
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Krasnoyarsk, Russia - Four teenagers were convicted of vandalizing a Jewish cemetery.
The defendants faced the rarely applied charge of "damaging tombstones motivated by ethnic hatred"--most cemetery vandals are charged simply with "hooliganism."
They were found guilty of vandalizing the cemetery on the night of October 7, 2007. One was confined to a psychiatric institution, the others got sentences of between two and two and a half years and were fined as well.
The vandals damaged 61 gravestones the night of their rampage. Nevertheless, the sentence was unusually harsh in comparison to previous rulings in similar cases, where the vast majority of defendants got off with warnings or suspended sentences for "hooliganism."
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Jun 27, 2008 at 04:43 AM Sam Annis Says:
These antisemites got what they deserved. Who is to say that the punishment was harsh? Certainly not the relatives of the gravestone victims.