Lodzkie

15th April 2011

A group of three young vandals have devastated the war cemetery in Lodz’s Poniatowski Park. Eleven headstones were overturned and although police were alerted immediately by a passer-by the young people they approached turned out not to be involved. Undeterred, the officers returned the following day and quickly identified a group of youngsters running wild in the vicinity.

The ringleader, a 14-year-old boy, initiated the destruction, knocking the first monument over accidentally while walking his dog. He then introduced his younger colleagues to the game, competing to see who could knock over the largest number. The youths later boasted that their actions had been written about by loca ...