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Two suspects arrested over antisemitic vandalism at Indiana synagogue

Nazi symbols were daubed on a wall at the shul last month

August 20, 2018 11:11
The graffiti was sprayed on a building belonging to the synagogue
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Two people have been arrested in connection with the antisemitic vandalism daubed on a US synagogue building last month.

Nolan Brewer, 20, and an unnamed 17-year-old female accomplice were arrested late last week, with Mr Brewer subsequently charged with conspiracy to violate civil rights.

Pictures of the Shaarey Tefilla synagogue in Carmel, Indiana, showed a black swastika in a circle on a red background, similar to flag used by the Nazi regime, had been daubed on property belonging to the Jewish community.

On either side of the swastika were iron crosses  — the military decoration widely used by Prussia and Germany until the end of the Second World War — which have become a symbol used by neo-Nazis.