An Orthodox Jewish
family in Toronto woke up this week to a swastika and the words “watch
your children” scrawled on their garage door, the Friends of Simon
Wiesenthal Center said in a news release Friday.
The anti-Semitic
vandals entered the family’s garage and added more graffiti on furniture
inside, including a swastika on a baby’s high chair, according to a
report on CTV news.
It was the second time
in past weeks the family, which has young children, had been targeted,
according to the report. Previously, vandals had left a swastika on
their car.
“That an individual or
group of individuals feel bold enough to invade someone's home and
attack them because they are Jewish is a very dangerous turn of events
in this city,” said FSWC President and CEO Avi Benlolo in the statement.
The Star was unable to
confirm that police are investigating the event, though CTV reports
that police are taking the incident seriously and treating it as a hate
crime.
