Vandals have defaced a recently renovated synagogue in central Greece with anti-Semitic slogans.
The Central Jewish Council of Greece (KIS) said the painted messages were “abusive slogans of anti-Semitic hatred”.
The vandalism took place in a synagogue in Trikala, once home to one of Greece’s oldest Jewish communities, reported the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Monday.
A KIS statement said the defacement of the building had caused “outage and deep sadness”.
READ MORE: Exhibition: ‘The Jews of Greece: Then and Now’
“We are reminded that the snake’s egg continues to hatch in our society, and that the fight against anti-Semitism must be continuous and vigilance uninterrupted,” the statement read.
The KIS urged the country’s authorities to “take all necessary measures to arrest and punish the perpetrators and to protect the Jewish sites of the city of Trikala, which has demonstrated its zero tolerance of intolerance and racism”.
Eight tombstones in Trikala’s Jewish cemetery were smashed by vandals in October, 2018.
The cemetery includes some of the oldest tombstones in Greece, erected more than 450 years ago.
In 2018, just 40 Jews remained in a city of 81,000 people.
