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Vandal destroys a week-old King memorial Apr 10, 2005, 6:16 PM Outrage tonight after the destruction of a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King. A granite monument to Dr. King is in pieces today. The victim of a 17-year-old vandal. What makes this even more unsettling is that the monument was unveiled just a week ago. "This is something that took 17 years to come to fruition and for it to be destroyed in seven days is just a horrible situation," said Lorraine Robinson, West Memphis City Council. West Memphis police have arrested a suspect and he confessed to destroying...

Vandals strike Forrest monument Apr 13, 2005, 11:02 PM Vandals spray painted a 4-letter word followed by the letters "K-K-K" on a monuimen to former Confederate Gerneral Nathan Bedford Forrest. It's the latest turn in an effort to change the names of confederate Mid-South parks. Gene Ingram says this isn't the first time the monument of Nathan Bedford Forrest has been vandalized. "The people that do these things they don't read they don't know they take the word of other people" said Ingram. Ingram is a relative of the general's wife, Mary Anne Montgomery who is buried inside the tomb...

(Indianapolis) – Police have made an arrest in the vandalism incident that shocked many city residents last month. On March 29th, a monument to Medal of Honor recipients that stands on the Canal Walk downtown was discovered to have been vandalized. Etched glass panes were smashed and covered in spray-painted graffiti. Police say they’ve arrested a suspect, Joshua M. Miner, 18, of Danville. Miner faces a charge of criminal mischief, a D felony. He surrendered Friday afternoon. Investigators believe the smashed glass and the graffiti occurred separately, and they are continuing to look into leads that may bring them to...

Indianapolis, March 30 - Wednesday seemed like a normal spring day at the Canal Walk. But for visitors to the Medal of Honor memorial, a dirty secret marred an otherwise beautiful place, where vandals did a lot of damage. Glass panels on the monument were smashed early Tuesday morning. Obscene words about President Bush and Gov. Daniels, along with peace symbols were spray-painted on canal walls. "I don't get it. I don't get it at all," said Tammy Hickman, a visitor. "It's really an indication of how morally bankrupt people are who were involved in this," said State Police Officer...

State police are trying to determine who vandalized a memorial and spray-painted walls along a canal at White River State Park downtown, RTV6 reported Tuesday. Two glass panels at a memorial to Medal of Honor recipients were broken. Someone also spray-painted obscene words about America, President Bush and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels under a bridge along the canal, RTV6 reported. The graffiti included spray-paintings of a peace symbol, a heart and an anarchy sign. The IPALCO Foundation, which pays for the upkeep of the memorial, offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrests of whoever caused the damage.

LONDON - Vandals have sprayed swastikas and other Nazi insignia on 15 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in southern England, police said Wednesday. They said the anti-Semitic graffiti had appeared on the gravestones in Aldershot, Hampshire, over the past month. "This is about the lowest thing anybody can do," Police Constable Andy Gardiner of Hampshire police said. "Any sort of vandalism would be bad enough but to put symbols like these on Jewish graves is a despicable act." As well as swastikas, the vandals had sprayed SS on some of the graves - a reference to the Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary...

Vandals defiled a Jewish cemetery in St. Petersburg for the second time this year, scrawling swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on 30 graves and a synagogue, Jewish leaders said Friday. Mark Grubarg, head of St. Petersburg Jewish Community, called on police to do more to protect the cemetery, where people found "Jews Get Out of the Country!", "Long Live Holocaust!" and "Heil Hitler!" scrawled on the synagogue. Graves were covered with swastikas and Nazi SS signs. "This is the worst thing to defile something sacred, the history. And it's so low to fight the dead," Grubarg said. The cemetery was...

Nearly 100 graves were desecrated at a Jewish cemetery near the eastern city of Strasbourg, local authorities said on Saturday. The perpetrators daubed tombstones with anti-Semitic and Nazi inscriptions in black and blue paint in an attack that appeared to have taken place on Friday night at Brumath, 15 km north of Strasbourg, the local government prefect's office said. It was the third such attack in six months, and there have also been similar attacks on Muslim burial sites in the Alsace region that borders Germany. "Once again, what I have to say and say again are the same words...

A Jewish headstone at cemetery in New Zealand was desecrated overnight in yet another anti-Semitic incident in the Oceanic nation, one month after 16 graves were desecrated at a Jewish cemetery in Wellington, the New Zealand Herald has reported. "It was a substantial attack and even though it is a reinforced concrete structure, they've still managed to crack the monument and take several large chunks from it," said the Wanganui District Council's recreation and culture manager, Keith Hindson. While other headstones had been damaged in the past, this was the first incident at the Jewish section, he said. "It's the...

@#$%*!$ Animals Deface 9/11 Memorial A 9/11 memorial put together with RWAM's John Brown, University of Tennessee College Republicans and various others was vandalized on the morning of 9/11/04. John Brown writes on http://johnnbrown.blogspot.com/, "Apparently, some cowardly and despicable individuals snuck onto the amphitheater Wednesday night and removed all 3,000 flags. They moved them to Humanities Plaza (about 100 yards away) and replanted them, spelling out "The World Suffers." They also chalked various antiwar and anti-Bush slogans on the buildings and on the pavement - in direct violation of University rules. The Memorial Originally The "message?"

Remember the Vietnam War memorial that was vandalized the other day? Why does the idiot who has been arrested for the crime have a John Kerry sign hanging in his window? More Photos >>

Vandals spray-painted red swastikas and the initials "SS" on four family tombs with Jewish-sounding names in a cemetery in eastern France, police said Monday. The attack on the small cemetery in Audincourt probably took place late Saturday or early Sunday, police said. There was no immediate information on who might have been behind the vandalism. France, which has western Europe's largest populations of Jews and Muslims, has experienced a recent upsurge in anti-Semitic and anti-Arab attacks.

NEO-NAZIS have desecrated 50 Jewish gravestones in the city of Bochum, the latest in a series of attacks that suggest a revival of far-Right activity in Germany.Right-wing extremists have also been infiltrating the protest movement against Gerhard Schröder, the Chancellor, who was pelted with eggs and stones in the eastern German town of Wittenberge yesterday, and are exploiting the growing discontent of the less prosperous east. The cemetery attack coincided with clashes and acts of anti-Semitic vandalism across Germany to mark the anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, who killed himself in prison in August 1987. Many...

France denounces desecration of Jewish cemetery Swastikas painted late Wednesday on 30 graves in cemetery near Strasbourg. Meanwhile, Sharon welcomes 200 immigrants from France. Maariv News Service, Eli Berdenshtein and Arik Bender Advertisement French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin has denounced the desecration of a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg in the eastern part of the country late Wednesday. Vandals daubed swastikas on more than 30 graves at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, court officials said Wednesday. Swastikas, Celtic crosses, stars, the number "666" - seen by some as a satanic inscription - and other unidentifiable symbols were scrawled across...

A Hermantown church's display of crosses didn't sit well Wednesday with an unidentified driver. Broken crosses littered the tire track-covered lawn of Gethsemane Covenant Church, 4479 Ugstad Road, on Thursday morning as volunteers surveyed damage to the "Cemetery of Innocence," a display of 400 three-foot crosses each representing 10 abortions. More than 80 of the white PVC pipe crosses were knocked down or damaged, and some will have to be replaced. Lives represented by the crosses equal the number of abortions performed each day, said Jim Tuttle, Duluth branch manager of St. Paul-based Pro-Life Action Ministries, the group that manages...

French politicians have condemned an apparently anti-Semitic attack on a woman in which a knife-wielding gang on a suburban train cut her hair, ripped her clothes and drew swastikas on her body. The attack on a 23-year-old who was with her 13-month-old baby involved six young men on Friday morning in front of other passengers on the train just north of Paris, authorities said. French media said the attackers appeared to have been north African and that the victim was not Jewish but the gang may have believed she was after taking her handbag and finding identity papers with an...

A Muslim cemetery and a village in eastern France were painted with Neo-Nazi slogans and swastikas over the weekend, prompting Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin to head to the region to speak with officials and religious representatives. More than 50 Muslim graves in a Strasbourg cemetery were covered with black swastikas and, in some cases, "HH" (for Heil Hitler) and the neo-Nazi characters "88", which refer to the letter H being the 8th letter in the alphabet. A wall nearby was inscribed with threats against the heads of the regional Muslim council and the regional assembly as well as the...

VANDALS daubed black swastikas and SS symbols on 14 graves at a Christian cemetery in eastern France, the second such incident at the graveyard in a month, police said today. The pro-Nazi markings were discovered early today at the cemetery in the Alsatian village of Niederhaslach. Similar graffiti was found on some 20 graves at the cemetery in early May. The incident in May came on the heels of the desecration of 127 graves at a Jewish cemetery in the same region, not far from the border with Germany. Vandals scrawled swastikas and sayings glorifying Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler on...

Vandals in the city of Verdun, in northern France, scrawled Nazi slogans and symbols on a memorial to Jewish soldiers who died in the World War I, Israel Radio reported Friday. The vandals drew swastikas and spray-painted the words 'Hiel Hitler' across the memorial. Last week, 127 tombstones were desecrated in a Jewish cemetery in France. Vandals spray-painted anti-Semitic phrases and swastikas in a Jewish cemetery in the western city of Herrlisheim-Hattstatt. French leaders responded to the desecration of graves with a wave of indignation. Anti-Semitic attacks have been on the rise in the country in the past three years.

STRASBOURG, France, May 2 (Reuters) - Vandals desecrated around 20 graves with Nazi slogans in a Roman Catholic cemetery near the French border with Germany, police said on Sunday, two days after a similar incident at a nearby Jewish cemetery. The two incidents appeared unrelated. Nazi swastikas daubed around the Catholic cemetery in the village of Niederhaslach, west of Strasbourg, were the wrong way around -- unlike those at the Jewish cemetery, where 127 graves were desecrated. "It doesn't look at all like we're dealing with the same sort of context," one policeman said, adding that the Niederhaslach incident could...