The national gendarmerie “immediately launched an investigation” and the Compiègne public prosecutor’s office was informed of the facts after the discovery of damage to ten Jewish steles in a German cemetery in Oise. Specifically, this is the German military cemetery from the First World War in Moulin-sous-Touvent.
Ten Jewish steles were discovered defaced on Wednesday in the German military cemetery from the First World War in Moulin-sous-Touvent (Oise), the prefecture announced. The national gendarmerie “immediately launched an investigation” and the Compiègne public prosecutor’s office was informed of the facts, added the Oise prefecture. The prosecution opened an investigation for “violation of graves or monuments initiated in memory of deaths committed because of race, ethnicity, nation, religion”, he told AFP.
“Despicable acts”
This cemetery “brings together 1,903 Christian and Jewish graves of German soldiers who fought during the First World War,” detailed the prefecture. The prefect of Oise, Catherine Séguin, condemned in this press release “abject acts” against “soldiers who died during the Great War” and sent a “message of support and peace to the descendants” of the soldiers whose the grave “has just been desecrated”.
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