36 Argentine skins arrested during AH celebration

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36 Argentine skins arrested during AH celebration

Argentina nabs 36 skinheads at Hitler birthday event

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — Argentine police arrested 36 skinheads at an event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, officials told AFP on Wednesday.

The Sunday arrests came after a "prolonged and meticulous investigation," said Daniel Perez, the second in command of the Federal Police unit in charge of investigating hate crimes.

Police broke into the Central Argentine Club, in the town of San Martin, in Buenos Aires province, while a recital was being held by the local chapter of the neo-Nazi group "Blood and Honour," Perez said.

Police found Nazi-related material, including flags with swast
ikas, films and CDs of music with racist and anti-semitic lyrics, Perez said.

"Blood and Honour," which is based in Britain, has chapters across Europe and the Americas and is aimed at promoting Nazi ideology.

The arrests are "an important success in the struggle to eradicate these groups of Nazi ideology that are a threat to Argentine society," the Delegation of Israeli Associations in Argentina said in a statement.

Argentina has the largest Jewish community in Latin America.

Two deadly anti-Jewish attacks were carried out in Buenos Aires in the past years: the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy of Israeli that killed 22 and wounded 200, and the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 and wounded 300.

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No reason given--this may have had something to do with the BH roundup:


Buenos Aires Jewish cemete
ry defaced

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) -- Red swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were painted on the walls of an ancient Buenos Aires Jewish cemetery.

The Jewish community is alarmed by Tuesday's attack, AMIA Jewish Central institution General Secretary Julio Schlosser told JTA. The attack occurred on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Employees of the Liniers Cemetery reported the vandalism early Tuesday morning.

Schlosser, who visited the cemetery to see the vandalism, said the graffiti was about 3 feet high. He said a lateral wall of the cemetery was painted with crossed-out Stars of David, and graffiti on the front walls and pillars included swastikas and “gross words.”�

In addition to filing a criminal complaint, AMIA demanded a meeting with the province Justice Ministry.

The cemetery, which has been attacked before, is located in the west Buenos Aires city outskirts.

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