The decrepit remnants of a Shul that was recently ordered returned to the Jewish community of Mariupol, Ukraine have been vandalized.

Vandals painted anti-semitic slogans on the remaining wall of what used to be the city’s choral Shul.

The building was confiscated by the Soviet government and left in a deplorable condition; in December 2006 the Jewish community successfully won a legal battle to have it returned to the community. Perhaps not coincidentally, two weeks after the city administration announced this decision, the vandals struck. Local Jewish leaders are planning to ask that police investigate the incident.

(USCJ)