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Hungary: Graves vandalised in Jewish cemetery

The leader of a small Jewish community said yesterday that about 20 graves had been vandalised in a Jewish cemetery.

Peter Weisz says the damage to the graves in the city of Gyongyos, including the scattering of human remains, was “unprecedented.”

Mr Weisz said a number of graves dating as far back as the late 1800s were of ancestors of some of the 80 members of the recently re-established Jewish community in Gyongyos.

He said relations with other religious groups in the city were “exemplary.”

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