A vandal who painted swastikas and neo-Nazi slogans on a small mausoleum over the grave of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, a famous Berdichev rabbi who died in 1810, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison, according to a June 26, 2008 report posted on Jewish.ru. The 20-year-old defendant was charged under Article 297 of the Criminal Code (desecrating graves), but not a hate crime.
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