Police in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia detained a suspect in a string of antisemitic vandalism incidents, according to a June 10, 2008 report by the Nizhny Novgorod Telegraphic Agency. The young man and three other suspects allegedly vandalized Jewish graves in the Krasnaya Etna cemetery multiple times over the course of May and June, including a previously unreported incident on June 9. In a rare departure from standard prosecutions of similar cases, the youths face charges of "mockery over the bodies of the dead and their burial motivated by ethnic hatred."

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