Crosses and Graves Damaged in Steinbach Cemetery

Country: Germany

Date of incident: April 21, 2018


Unknown vandals caused damage estimated at several thousand euros over the Easter weekend in a cemetery in Fernwald-Steinbach. At least twelve graves were targeted, with wooden crosses and planted flowers damaged. In some other cases, the perpetrators tore out the gravestones and threw them in an adjacent meadow and on top of other graves. A police investigation was initiated.

Source: Polizeipräsidium Mittelhessen