Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found On Burlington School

BURLINGTON, MA -- Police use surveillance camera footage to identify a "person of interest" as they try to determine who painted a swastika and other graffiti on the Pine Glen Elementary School in Burlington. In a letter to the school community, Burlington Superintendent Eric Conti said the graffiti was applied around 9:50 pm Wednesday. The person of interest is not a Burlington student, Conti said.

"The clear message that I want to send to the Burlington Public School community is that any vandalism, especially vandalism that is anti-Semetic [sic] in nature, will not be tolerated," Conti said. "Burlington schools are places of respect and acceptance and we will respond every time."

Conti said school officials worked with Rabbi Susan Abramson of Burlington’s Temple Shalom to identify the crudely-drawn image as a swastika.

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