Swastikas carved into bodies of dead pigeons as horrific attack shocks picturesque English town
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Cambridgeshire Police were called to St Neots’ High Street the incident on August 22.
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Cambridgeshire Police were called to St Neots’ High Street the incident on August 22.
Swastikas have been carved into bodies of dead pigeons after a horrific attack left a picturesque English town in shock.
Cambridgeshire Police were called to St Neots’ High Street the incident on August 22.
Officers from the Huntingdonshire neighbourhood team arrested a 21-year-old woman from Baldock.
A 23-year-old man from Chatteris was also arrested on suspcion of a racist or religious public order offence.
A white dove or white pigeon amongst other pigeons in Victoria Park, Bath.
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The pair were still in custody on August 30.
Pigeons were found mutilated on St Neots’ High Street.
However, it is not clear whether the horrific anti-Semitic symbol was engraved when the birds were already dead,
The swastika is synonymous with the Nazi Party and former German leader Adolf Hitler.
Two men who drew a swastika on a black housemate’s door were jailed in a separate incident in June 2023.
The pair also perpetrated a number of other forms of vile and racist abuse in The Whaddons, Huntingdon.
Another swastika was emblazoned on the grass in Cherry Hill, Ely in June 2023.
A statement from Huntingdonshire police posted on social media said: “A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the death of two pigeons in St Neots.
“Police were called on 22 August with reports dead pigeons with swastikas carved into their chests had been found in the High Street.
“Today officers, from the Huntingdonshire neighbourhood team, arrested a 21-year-old woman from Baldock and a 23-year-old man from Chatteris on suspicion of racial/religious public order.”