As UCSJ reported earlier this month, five Riga youths have admitted in court to vandalizing around 40 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in September 2003. According to a February 4, 2005 report by the Baltic News Agency, all have received suspended sentences. The court found that the youths had gone to the cemetery in a drunken state and then wrote slogans like “Heil Hitler!” and “Death to the kikes!” on the gravestones. One of the accused admitted that he was inspired by neo-Nazi ideas to vandalize the cemetery, but the other defendants claimed not to know why they committed the crime.

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