Community leaders: Bucharest Jewish cemetery vandalism was organized

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jewish leaders on Friday condemned the vandalism in the Jewish cemetery in Bucharest and said the scale of the destruction suggested the activity was organized - rather than random acts by wayward youths. Other graves have been vandalized in Jewish cemeteries in recent years, but those attacks occurred in the provinces, and were more limited in scope. "We cannot be silent," said Ozi Lazar, who heads Bucharest's Jewish community. "We want a full investigation and for the perpetrators to be punished." Vandals rampaged through the sprawling Jewish cemetery in Romania's capital on Thursday, toppling tombstones and smashing markers for as many as 200 graves.