Internet news site and cable channel Delfi.lt reports a man attacked Israeli tourists in Vilnius and posted a video of the attack on Sunday. Delfi contacted Lithuanian police and learned they received a complaint Monday afternoon about the video positing on facebook on Sunday. According to Delfi, a male suspect born in 1972 posted a video taken on Dūkštų street in Vilnius where he verbally attacked a group of three Jews and spit on them, then called upon others to do the same. He told Jews to “go home.”

Delfi.lt said internet news portal and daily newspaper lrytas.lt reported the suspect was Gintaras Liutkevičius, who goes by Grafas Liutkevičius [Count Liutkevičius] on social media. According to the latter, he posted the video of his attack on what appeared to be Jewish tourists on facebook with the title New Challenge: Spit On and Out a Zionist. Liutkevičius apparently approached the group he thought were Jews and spoke to them in Lithuanian, but group members asked him to speak English. The suspect then said in English he had heard Jews spit on Christians, although the three men said that wasn’t true. Liutkevičius reportedly then told them to go home and then spit on them.

Liutkevičius has been arrested over the incident which police view as a violation of Lithuanian law against racial, ethnic and religious incitement. The Lithuanian law forbids mockery and belittlement and the encouragement of hatred against a group or individual belonging to a group based on age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, race, skin color, ethnicity, language, origin including ethnic origin, social status, beliefs including religious beliefs and convictions and points of view. The law provides for punishment for transgressions including arrest, imprisonment up to two years, limitation of freedoms, and other measures.

Full story in Lithuanian here.