Portuguese teenagers handed sentence for Auschwitz vandalism
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
08.02.2017 12:51
Two Portuguese teenagers have been handed a one-year jail sentence suspended for two years for damaging property at the Auschwitz former German Nazi concentration camp in southern Poland.
Foto: Flickr.com/Adam Tas
The 17-year-olds were detained in July after they scratched their names in the stonework of the main gate leading to the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.
They were ordered to pay PLN 1,000 to the Auschwitz Museum.
In a ruling on Wednesday, a judge at a district court in Oswięcim, southern Poland, said that the accused were “very young and did not previously have a criminal record”.
Around 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews, as well as non-Jewish Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet POWs and people of many other nationalities, perished at Auschwitz at the hands of the German Nazis occupying Poland during World War II.
(rg/pk)
Source: PAP