Vandals destroyed headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Manchester, England on May 18, in what a senior police officer called "a sickening act of anti-Semitism," the Times of Israel website reports today (May 20, 2016).
Police found 14 headstones knocked over and smashed at the Blackley cemetery, in northeast Manchester.
Police are treating the vandalism as a hate crime, although no suspects have yet been apprehended, Superintendent Wasim Chaudhry, head of Greater Manchester Police's North Manchester Division, said in a statement.
"This is a sickening act of anti-Semitism which we are taking very seriously. I believe this was a deliberate and targeted attack and there is no place for such abhorrent behavior in our communities," Chaudhry told UK press.
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