Man Jailed A Year For Desecrating Jewish Graves In Denmark
Umer Jamshaid Published October 16, 2020 | 09:10 PM
A Danish court on Friday sentenced a 39-year-old man with neo-Nazi sympathies to a year in prison for desecrating a Jewish cemetery in the western town of Randers
Copenhagen, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Oct, 2020 ) :A Danish court on Friday sentenced a 39-year-old man with neo-Nazi sympathies to a year in prison for desecrating a Jewish cemetery in the western town of Randers.
The man and his 28-year-old accomplice were both found guilty of desecrating a graveyard and aggravated vandalism, but the latter's sentence has yet to be handed down.
In November 2019, 81 years after Kristallnacht when Nazis smashed Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues in Germany, the pair desecrated more than 80 tombstones, overturning some and covering others with graffiti.
The two were also found guilty of vandalism on two other occasions, for covering a building adorned with two stars of David with paint and putting stickers with the logo of the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) group on a rainbow-coloured park bench.
These "actions were sending a message that was intended to threaten, insult or degrade certain groups because of their beliefs, ethnic origins or sexual orientation," police prosecutor Cathrine Brunsgaard Jacobsen said in a statement after the sentencing.
The 39-year-old, whose name was not disclosed, is a leading member of the Danish branch of NMR, according to the prosecutor.
NMR, which designates itself as a "revolutionary national socialist" organisation, was founded in Sweden in 1997 and is present in all of the Nordic countries.
Finland's Supreme Court however banned the organisation in September, ruling that it violated freedom of speech laws "by spreading "hateful rhetoric about immigrants, sexual minorities and Jews."In Denmark, the number of anti-Semitic acts rose by 50 percent from 2017 to 2018, the Jewish community said in 2019.
In February 2015, Copenhagen's synagogue was targetted in an attack that left one person dead.
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