Slovakia - Anti-Semitic Attacks in 2008

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• July: About twelve gravestones at the Jewish cemetery in Velka Ida in Eastern Slovakia were vandalized by an unknown perpetrator.
• July: Dozens of the NK Maribor Slovenian soccer team arrived for the training game with Hapoel Tel Aviv. They stole the team signs from two fans that accompanied the Hapoel Tel Aviv team to their training camp and after that, took their photos holding the signs and saluting by raising their hands. Zlatko Zahovič, NK Maribor’s sports manager apologized for this incident. “I would like apologize before the Hapoel Tel Aviv team and before the entire Jewish people. I was informed of the incident and the pictured that were published in Israel. I have Israeli friends and I respect them all. I do not approve that youngsters and drunks will hurt people who did not do them any harm. I ask the Hapoel Tel Aviv team to send me the photos of those people and I will make sure they will not be part of our team and I will involve the police on this matter. If the facts are true, then we will kick those 50 youngsters out of our team. I am outraged and fully aware of the Jewish people’s feelings on this matter. We will not tolerate this”.