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Maitland headstones vandalised with Nazi symbols
Investigators are appealing for information after 10 headstones at a Jewish cemetery were vandalised in a suspected hate crime.
Officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were called to a cemetery on Louth Park Road, South Maitland, last Tuesday (31 January 2023), and found 10 headstones had been spray-painted with a Nazi symbol.
A crime scene was established with a number of items seized. They will be forensically examined
The small historic cemetery opened in 1846.
Investigators are following a number of lines of inquiry and are urging anyone with information about the incident to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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