15:08 05.05.2016

Unknown individuals burn Israel flag at Babyn Yar in Kyiv

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Unknown individuals burn Israel flag at Babyn Yar in Kyiv

A group of young people burned the flag of Israel near the Menora memorial, at the Babyn Yar in Kyiv; Vitali Klitschko, the Kyiv Mayor, requested law enforcement authorities to investigate this act of vandalism.

"Video surveillance recorded the group of young vandals burning the flag of the state of Israel near the Menora memorial, at the Babyn Yar. This happened on the national Holocaust Remembrance Day, when the Jewish people all over the world remember the 6 million victims of Nazism, who perished during World War II," the press service of Kyiv City State Administration quoted Klitschko as saying.

Klitschko noted that the memory of the victims should be respected, for such tragedies of humanity not to ever be repeated. The Kyiv authorities plan to create a Holocaust victims memorial at Babyn Yar, he said.

"It is intolerable to brutalize the memory of the victims. Especially, at the place, which is globally known as one of the symbols of a terrible crime of fascism, at the Babyn Yar, where dozens of thousands of people of different nationalities, the majority of them, Jewish, had been destroyed," he said.

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