A swastika and other anti-Semitic messages were found spray-painted on a Colorado Springs synagogue Friday morning.
Temple Beit Torah, 522 E. Madison St., and nearby cars, homes and buildings were vandalized, said police Sgt. Pamela Castro. She did not release details, saying the incident is under investigation.
A swastika and the words “sig (sic) heil” – for “sieg heil,” a Nazi salute praising Hitler – were among the scribblings on one side of the temple’s sign. The other side was marked with an unintelligible message. The word “sig” also was painted near the building’s south entrancee.
Daniel Bushman, who has lived across the street from the synagogue since January, said he scrubbed many of the messages but could not completely erase them. He said his wife’s car was spray-painted with a long black line on the driver’s side.
Vandals spray painted a Nazi Swastika on the reader board outside the Temple Beit Toran in Colorado Springs Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Neighbors believe the vandals hit their neighborhood near the Bon Center the night before defacing the Jewish temple and cars near by.
He said he cleaned the temple’s sign because he doesn’t want “that kind of hate around here.”