Many other antisemitic attacks were carried out in Denmark over the weekend, according to members of the Jewish community, including a Star of David painted onto the letter box of a family.

COPENHAGEN—“The attacks at the weekend are both an attack against Danish Jews and against all of us,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said after over 80 graves were desecrated at a Jewish cemetery and other antisemitic acts over the weekend.

“More than 80 gravestones were daubed with green graffiti, and some were overturned” at the Ostre Kirkegard cemetery in Randers, in central Denmark, the Danish press agency Ritzau said, quoting police authorities.

“There are no symbols or words written on the gravestones,” the local Ritzau news agency reports, citing  the police spokesman Bo Christensen.

“Our Jewish citizens must be respected and not live in fear,” the Danish Prime Ministe said in her statement.

Many other antisemitic attacks were carried out in Denmark over the weekend, according to members of the Jewish community, including a Star of David painted onto the letter box of a family in the western town of Silkeborg, Agence France Presse reported.

The vandalism happened on the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht anti-Jewish attacks in Nazi Germany, a fact that one Jewish community leader said was “proof that the state of mind which led to the Holocaust exists in 2019”.

Around 6,000 Jews live in Denmark.