On May 1, a statue of Lenin in Magen David and the Nazi inscription "Jewish mass murderer" was destroyed • Earlier this week, headstones were desecrated in the Jewish cemetery in the city of Hina with swastikas
Anti-Semitism in Finland surges: Lenin's statue was sprayed on the night of Thursday and Friday, May 1, in the Star of David, as well as in a graffiti in Finnish "Jewish mass murderer". It is a statue located in the southern part of Kotka, which was given to it by the twin city of Tallinn in Estonia in 1979, when it was under Soviet occupation.
May one is celebrated in Finland today as a holiday and a holiday, and it is no coincidence that precisely on Labor Day, Lenin's statue, one of the well-known symbols of communism, was actually sprayed. The statue is located in the city center of Kotka, near the city of Mina, where a Jewish cemetery was desecrated this week, probably by neo-Nazi sources.
Leninin patsasta töhritty Kotkassa - otsassa Daavidin tähti ja jalustassa massururhaaja text https://t.co/aa9MI0kIPS
- Yle Kotka (@ylekotka) May 1, 2020
According to the state broadcasting agency YLE, the corruption was detected during a police patrol, police are investigating the matter but no investigation has been opened yet. Also, according to police, at this time there is no ability to link the two incidents in Kotka and Hamina.
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Remember, this week, headstones were desecrated in the Jewish cemetery in the city that was designated by anti-Semites. In addition, swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were sprayed on the spot. A senior community official told Israel Today that "in Finland as elsewhere, there has been an increase in anti-Semitic phenomena in recent months that attributes the spread of the Corona epidemic to Jews. This is also evident in the discourse in networks and the spread of stickers across Helsinki by the Nordic resistance movement (Neo Organization) - Nazi) ".
