The desecration of over 100 Jewish graves

The daily newspaper Cotidianul accuses the Romanian Police of indifference for so far failing to classify the desecration of Bucharest's Jewish cemetery as an anti-Semitic incident. "All the stuttering of the police is just the tip of an iceberg of indifference that is paired with a fear of our own past (we still have great problems recognising the role Romania played in the Holocaust) and a fear above all of anything that has to do with Romanian anti-Semitism (the fanaticism of certain Romanian intellectuals of the inter-war period was promptly dismissed as 'errors of youth' and that was the end of it). The destruction of over 100 graves can't simply be dismissed - this was an act of aggression of such import that it cannot be put down to the antics of a few drunken youths. Why does something like this happen? No one seems interested in the motives. In a gesture that was more symbolic than anything else, the prime minister and the justice minister ordered a cursory investigation. Since then ten days have passed and there are still no answers."

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