German Justice fines a man 3,200 for destroying the Berlin Holocaust Memorial

BERLIN, 10 Nov. (DPA/EP) -

A district court in the German capital, Berlin, has imposed a fine of 3,200 euros on a man for destroying with two hammers one of the concrete blocks of the emblematic Holocaust monument located in the center of the city.

The Justice has condemned this citizen -resident in Brandenburg and who has not appeared for the summons- to pay 80 daily fines of 40 euros each to cover part of the repair costs, which amount to up to 9,000 euros.

The Berlin-Tiergarten Court has ruled that the defendant damaged property and disturbed the peace of the dead. Likewise, another financial penalty of 2,400 has been imposed on him for other crimes of coercion and illegal car racing.

However, the sentence can still be appealed by the 62-year-old citizen, who has been mentioned as having some type of mental disability, with which a new trial would be held later.

The monument, erected in 2005 and located on the left bank of the Brandenburg Gate, commemorates the nearly six million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany and consists of around 2,700 gray concrete blocks of different heights.