Unkempt and Desecrated Graves Cause Us Anguish
Local deputy mayor
Jacques Kistler attends a ceremony to denounce the vandalism (
AP )
Dozens
of gravestones and a monument to the holocaust have been desecrated with
swastikas and other antisemitic signs
at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg.
The
graffiti – which also included “heil Hitler” – was discovered just hours before
an Islamist terrorist shot dead three people at a Christmas
market in the French city on
Tuesday.
The two incidents
have not been linked.
The
vandalism at the Herrlisheim cemetery – in which 37 graves were targeted – is
the fourth time in just two months that far-right symbols have appeared in the
Alsace region, according to the Times of Israel.
It came shortly after
police in France revealed they had registered a 69 per cent rise in the number
of antisemitic crimes in the first nine months of 2018 compared with the same
period last year.
A ceremony
has since been held at the cemetery to denounce the vandalism and remember
Holocaust victims.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/jewish-gravestones-swatstikas-strasbourg-france-desecration-anti-semitism-a8683436.html
