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Fast Forward Teens Identified As Rome Jewish Cemetery Vandals
ROME (JTA) – Police identified four young teenagers as the vandals who smashed or toppled scores of Catholic and Jewish gravestones in Rome’s Verano cemetery. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, the four were aged 13 and 14 and came from “good families.” Surveillance videos filmed them smashing headstones, tombs, and memorials in four…
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Fast Forward Jewish, Catholic Headstones Damaged In Rome Cemetery
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