- An emotionally disturbed woman went on a three-day anti-Semitic
rampage, painting swastikas in Jewish neighborhoods - because she was furious
that her ex-husband married a Jewish woman 14 years younger than her, police
said.
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- About 20 locations in Brooklyn and Queens had been hit
since Friday - but cops put the case together after the woman's ex-husband
reported a swastika on his car parked in front of his Ozone Park home,
law-enforcement sources said.
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- Police arrested the ex-wife, Olga Abramovich, 49, of
Bay Ridge. A can of white spray paint - the same color as the swastikas
- was in her trunk. She was charged with criminal mischief.
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- She told cops that she committed the vandalism because
her Jewish ex had married a much younger Jewish woman, the sources said.
Abramovich is Russian Orthodox.
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- The sources said that she is on prescription medications
for emotional problems.
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- A neighbor said he was not surprised by her arrest.
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- "She's had a few episodes," he said. "About
a year ago, she threw all her stuff out the window - not just clothes,
but glasses, food, dishes."
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- She also once threw out a brand-new television.
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- "As long as she takes her medication, she's fine,"
he said.
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- The alleged rampage began on Friday, with the painting
of a swastika on a Jewish school on Ocean Parkway, police said. On Saturday,
Abramovich allegedly painted one on her ex-husband's car and a nearby building.
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- Most of the vandalism was discovered yesterday. Synagogues,
Jewish schools, community centers, cars and a funeral home were hit - sometimes
more than once - throughout Midwood.
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- - Additional reporting by Jamie Schram and Lorena Mongelli
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