Moscow - Russian Court Convicts 3 Men Over Anti-Semitic Sign Rigged With Explosives

Moscow - A Russian court convicted three members of an extremist group who were accused of planting an anti-Semitic sign rigged with explosives that injured two men.

The Regional Court in the city of Tomsk in central Siberia, sentence two of them to 23 and 20 years in prison respectively, and a third member of the group, who had repented and helped the investigation, had received a six-year suspended sentence.
The men were convicted on charges of banditry, terrorism and instigating ethnic hatred.
They were accused of planting an anti-Semitic sign that exploded in July 2002, injuring two passers-by who tried to remove it from the side of a highway in the region.

The incident was one of a series of copycat crimes in which such signs were erected around Russia during that time.