Jewish gravestones vandalized in German WWI cemetery in northern France
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French authorities said on Wednesday, November 15, they were investigating damage done to Jewish graves in a German World War I military cemetery, as anti-Semitic acts are on the rise across the country.
In the cemetery, situated in Moulin-sous-Touvent, in the Oise region north of Paris, 10 Jewish gravestones were discovered damaged, the local prefecture said.
Local gendarmes said they immediately called for an investigation into the incident and contacted the local prosecutor. Authorities say that a racist or religious motive is a possibility.
More than 1,500 anti-Semitic acts and comments have been recorded in France since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Tuesday.
There have been growing tensions in France, home to large Jewish and Muslim communities, as war rages in the Gaza Strip.
The German cemetery in memory of World War I (1914-18) contains 1,903 graves of German soldiers, both Christian and Jewish.
The Oise prefect, Catherine Séguin, called the defacing of the headstones “despicable.”
On Sunday, more than 182,000 people marched against anti-Semitism across France, including 105,000 in Paris alone.
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