Police open probe into Nazi graffiti in Jerusalem
Swastikas, Nazi imperial eagle sprayed on walls of abandoned building in neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv
Nazi symbols sprayed onto the walls of an abandoned building in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, September 24, 2017.(Israel Police)
Jerusalem police on Sunday opened an investigation into Nazi graffiti sprayed on an abandoned building in the city’s southeast, police said.
Swastikas, the SS symbol, and an image recalling the Nazi Party’s symbol of an imperial eagle sitting atop a swastika, were spray-painted on the walls of the building, close to Adam Street in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood.
A graffiti version of the Nazi imperial eagle sprayed on the wall of an abandoned building in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv, September 24, 2017 (Israel Police)
In June, an Israeli man was arrested after he painted swastikas in a synagogue and on walls inside a nearby residential building in the central Jerusalem neighborhood of Nahlaot.
Also in June, police arrested two Jewish teenagers on suspicion of daubing swastikas on two synagogues in the central town of Petah Tikva.
