Two Jewish cemeteries desecrated in eastern Germany

             

Two Jewish cemeteries in eastern Germany have been desecrated in anti-Semitic attacks. German police said a pig's head and an anti-Semitic banner were left at the gate of a cemetery in the city of Gotha. Several glasses containing a blood-like liquid were thrown over the cemetery's gate. In Erfurt, a memorial plaque at the entrance gate to a Jewish cemetery was also covered in a red liquid. Police are analyzing the liquid to determine what it is.

The damage to both cemeteries was discovered on Monday morning. Both cities are in the state of Thuringia, whose interior minister Manfred Scherer said police and prosecutors were working hard to find the perpetrators.