Anti-Semitism in the northern European country • In another incident, paint marks were sprayed on the walls of a Turku synagogue • Local police are investigating both incidents

• Neo-Nazi group burns Israel flag // Photo: From Twitter

In the shadow of landmark events 75 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, the Finnish police are investigating two anti-Semitic incidents in the country: In the first event, in the city of Tempara, a neo-Nazi group burned the Israeli flag and publicly denied the Holocaust events.

Neo-Nazi group activists from the "For the Freedom" movement, which is essentially a rebranded version of the Prohibited Nordic Resistance Movement, read a statement about the Holocaust during which they claimed the Holocaust was a myth and that "no conclusive evidence to support the allegation of genocide".

Turku Jewish Assembly Synagogue was vandalized with red on Holocaust Memorial Day. # Turku # Holocaust Remembrance Day #holocaustremembrancedayhttps: //t.co/aZpd0lFmGM pic.twitter.com/DexayGgt4U

- Turku Notifications (@au_news) January 27, 2020

At the same time, the group's website firmly claims that "no body of a Jew killed by poison gas was found" and that "eyewitness accounts of the massacre of the Nazi extermination camps are 'propaganda'."

In the second event, in the city of Turku, the country, color marks were discovered that were sprayed on a front door of the city's synagogue. In addition, paint marks were also found on the walls of the chapel, which was erected in 1912. The subject was brought to the attention of the local police who began investigating the incidents.

A neo-Nazi group burn an Israeli flag and denounce the Holocaust as "propaganda"; red paint daubed on synagogue walls: anti-Semitism on display in #Finland, as the country's leaders mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day & Auschwitz liberation. https://t.co/Jv828ZX7EP

- News Now Finland (@NewsNowFinland) January 27, 2020