PRAGUE (AFP)---Vandals desecrated 63 tombs in a Jewish cemetery in the Czech town of Uhersky Ostroh, in the east of the country, local police said Monday.
Tombstones were broken or toppled causing at least half a million korunas (19,200 euros, 27,000 dollars) in damage said police spokesman Ales Mergental.
Investigators thought the vandalism was committed on Saturday night, he added.
The incident happened as the Czech government, as holders of the rotating EU presidency, hosted an international conference on what to do with assets that once belonged to the victims of the Holocaust.
There are around 320 Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic, though the Jewish community itself only numbers 3,500 today, down from 120,000 before World War II.
Some 80,000 Czech Jews were deported and killed during the Nazi occupation.