Probe Laval graffiti as hate crime, Bnai Brith urges police [Video]

B’nai Brith Canada says the rash of spray-painted swastikas and other neo-Nazi graffiti in a Laval neighbourhood last month should be investigated as a hate crime.

“We get many reports of swastikas all over the city, but usually it is random. I have never seen that many [such symbols] in one place at one time,” said B’nai Brith regional director Harvey Levine of the incident that occurred over the night of March 28-29.

“This took a certain sophisticated knowledge and research to know what these different types of symbols mean… It took time and effort to send this message.”

B’nai Brith is convinced that more than one person was involved because of the differing styles of the drawings, he said.

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Levine said that if incidents like this are not deemed suspected hate crime and rather treated as simple vandalism, the police generally give them a lower priority.

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