Its a crime: Vandals spray paint swastika on German Calgary couples Christmas display – Calgary [Video]

A southeast Calgary couple feels they were targeted because of their German descent after their Christmas display was vandalized with a symbol of hate Saturday night (Dec. 14, 2024).

Christian Fruhen and his wife Silvana Stoesser said they arrived at their Deer Run home shortly after 10 p.m. following a Christmas party to find one of their inflatables had been spray-painted with a red swastika.

“Being a German with a symbol like this, (it’s) unbelievable,” said Stoesser, weeping.

“You know what (the swastika) did to so many people and then seeing this is just terrible,” she added.

The couple has put up their Christmas display – which features dozens of inflatables – for the past ten years, allowing families from Deer Run and surrounding communities to get into the Christmas spirit, take photos, and share donations for the Calgary Food Bank.

They say the display has been vandalized before with …