France: (576) Graves of Muslim War Veterans Defaced [View All]

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Source: NYTimes

For the third time in two years, the tombs of hundreds of Muslim war veterans were desecrated at a cemetery in northern France on Sunday night, the eve of the Id al-Adha holiday. Swastikas and anti-Muslim slogans were spray-painted on nearly all the 576 Muslim graves at the Notre Dame de Lorette military cemetery, near Arras, which holds the remains of about 40,000 dead from World War I. The last such desecration was in April. In a statement, President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the act as “revolting” and “an expression of repugnant racism against France’s Muslim community.”

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