Police are seeking the sick vandals who painted a half-dozen swastikas found this morning in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn.
The swastikas were found at a synagogue, a Jewish bath house and several businesses around 16th Avenue in Borough Park.
Cops
are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime, and are reviewing
surveillance video from the area. No arrests have been made.
Surveillance
video from Fischman’s Food Center at 4421 16th Ave., one of the
vandalized businesses, shows two men in hoodies walking up to the store
at about 2:45 a.m.
One of the men spray-painted the store’s front roll down gate, and then drew a swastika on the front plastic window panel.
The other man walked out of the camera’s view.
“Because
they’ve got extra paint in their cans, they have to go out and spray
other people’s property?” said Scheindel Fischman, who owns the business
with her husband.
“It’s ridiculous. I’ve never heard of something like that,” she said.
“It’s
a terrible shame that someone would do something like that,” said
neighborhood resident Moshe Zwolinski, 53. “These are people who don’t
really understand our culture and how we live.”
“What kind of sick
person does this in a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors?” asked
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), one of an array of elected
officials who expressed outrage over the incident.
The vandalized
locations include Irgun Shiurai Torah, a synagogue on 16th Avenue at
46th Street, and Mikvah Israel, a bath house at 18th Avenue and 47th
Street. A swastika was also sprayed on a car an area resident had parked
near IS 223 at 16th Avenue and 42nd Street.
One woman feared the sick hate scrawl was just the beginning.
"It's
very scary, they have the guts to come and do that," Moseh Liebermann,
70, said. "They start with the synagogue and then they will go to
everybody's house."
No arrests have been made and the NYPD is reviewing security tapes from nearby businesses.
Anyone with information about this crime should call the NYPD confidential tip line at 1-800-577-TIPS.
Additional reporting by Paul Martinka
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