TALLINN - Unknown vandals have sprayed the gravestone of Estonia's pre-WWII President Konstantin Pats with red paint in Tallinn's ForestCemetery.
Spokespeople for the area said the police were notified at 2:28 p.m. A team of investigators has completed the necessary procedures on the scene.
A photographer of the daily Postimees present at the cemetery said the paint appeared rather fresh.
No other graves were affected.
The remains of Konstantin Pats were transported from a cemetery in Russia and reburied in Tallinn's Forest Cemetery in 1990.
Following the Soviet invasion of Estonia in the summer of 1940, Pats was arrested in his home and deported together with his family to the remote Russian city of Ufa, where he lived as a deportee.
He was imprisoned the following year and spent his later years in several closed mental hospitals, dying in one such institution in Kalinin (now Tver) in 1956.
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