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Antisemitic Graffiti Defaces Holocaust Museum: St. Pete Police

St. Petersburg police are investigating antisemitic graffiti, including a swastika, painted on the city's Holocaust Museum as a hate crime.

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Police are searching for the vandal responsible for spray-painting hate graffiti aimed at the Jewish community alongside the Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg.
Police are searching for the vandal responsible for spray-painting hate graffiti aimed at the Jewish community alongside the Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. (St. Pete Police )

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — St. Pete police are searching for whoever spray-painted antisemitic graffiti sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning at the St. Petersburg Holocaust Museum.

Officers discovered the phrase "Jews are guilty" painted in black on the First Avenue South side of the museum, 55 Fifth St. South, just before 4 a.m. It included a swastika.

City workers painted over the graffiti Thursday morning. Detectives are actively investigating this as a hate crime, authorities said.

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If you have information that can help with this case, call the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-7780 or text SPPD plus your tip to TIP411.

Detectives with the St. Petersburg Police Department are investigating antisemitic graffiti painted on the side of the Holocaust Museum in St. Pete. (St. Pete Police)

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