Strasbourg, France – Police and Jewish officials say a Jewish cemetery in eastern France has been desecrated, with some gravestones marked with swastikas and overturned.
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The desecration in a Strasbourg cemetery came as Jews marked the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz death camp, a symbol of the Holocaust, when the Nazis killed millions.
France’s main Jewish organization, CRIF, says at least 18 tombstones at the Cronenbourg cemetery were found Wednesday marked with swastikas and 13 of them were overturned.
The CRIF’s Marc Knobel says the inscription “juden raus” (Jews out) was found on one tomb.
France is home to western Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim populations, and there are occasional attacks on their schools, cemeteriesor places of worship.
the jokes on those vandal guys…all the people in the cemetery are dead.