In State Department building scratched image of a swastika

On the wall of the elevator in the US State Department building found the image of a swastika. Her pressed an unknown person, reports the AXIOS portal with reference to the source.

It is noted that the image was found on July 26 in the elevator near the office of the Special Representative of the American Foreign Policy of Anti-Semitism. The next day, the staff of the State Department sent a notice with the condemnation of the act of vandalism.

American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that “inciting the hatred of graffiti has already been removed.” He stressed that this incident will investigate.

Previously, the image of the swastika was found in the parliamentary building of Germany. The spokesman for the Bundestag said that the symbol forbade in the country was scratched on the door of one of the elevators.

/Media reports.