War graves vandalized for the third time

[Cat]

After a third graffiti attack on hundreds of war graves in the north of France ...

http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Locales/Arras/actualite/Secteur_Arras/2008/12/09/article_le-cimetiere-militaire-de-n-d-de-lorette.shtml

Surveillance cameras will have to be used to protect the cemetery.

http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Region/actualite/Secteur_Region/2008/12/09/article_la-securisation-du-site-est-en-cours.shtml

Fluffy France my eye!

 

 

[Bannon]

A couple of years ago I was in the west of France looking round a cemetery to the Resistance. I cannot remember where exactly but I noticed it because there was a large monument there depicting the Cross of Lorranine. 

It was all rather strange (to me at least) because the graves had been laid out according to religion. Most at the front were as expected Catholic, behind them Protestant and surprising to me at the time and further to the back again, more than a few Muslim ones.

All seemed to be untouched except for one on it's own at the back of the cemetery. It had the star of David on it..... and had been vandalised. 

[Cat]

Sadly it's the Jewish and Muslim graves that are usually targeted, by extreme right-wing groups or bands of nutters who would seem to prefer that Germany had won the war, rather than lost it.

Sad that they can't catch a few of them and force them to spend the next month or so on their knees scrubbing off their "artwork"... with a soft-bristled toothbrush [6]

[Val_2]

My brother was in charge of the works for all these cemetaries a few years ago based in Arras. He looked after all nationalities not just the christian allies but some german graves too.He would be very sad to know of this vandalism.