Medford stunned by rash of anti-Semitic graffiti (x-post in GD)
MEDFORD — Anti-Semitic and other hate speech and symbols spray-painted on public schools, playgrounds, and businesses in south Medford have stunned local officials, who vow to mount a vigorous investigation into who desecrated the city on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“To think they would be that brazen, to travel wherever they want, to destroy whatever they want,” Mayor Michael J. McGlynn said Monday. “It’s unconscionable.”
Swastikas, a shamrock, and references to the Aryan nation were painted on more than two dozen locations, including street signs and athletic fields at Tufts University, overnight on Saturday into Sunday, officials said.
McGlynn said he thinks the attack was planned to coincide with the annual commemoration of the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews.
“I think it’s too much of a coincidence that it would happen on a day when so many remembrance services were going on,” he said.
Police Chief Leo A. Sacco Jr. said police are investigating the incident under the state’s hate crime law.
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