Police in Bogorodsk, Russia (Nizhny Novgorod region) detained a man
suspected of vandalizing a local cemetery multiple times, according to
an October 29, 2009 article in the local supplement to the national
daily "Komsomolskaya Pravda." In September and October, someone
smashed a total of 74 gravestones at the cemetery and painted
swastikas and Stars of David on some of them. Police reportedly caught
the 25-year-old suspect in the act of vandalizing gravestones again at
the same cemetery. The article reported that he has a record of mental
illness.
