"Around 80 graves have been daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local officials said, hours ahead of nationwide marches on Tuesday against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.
The damage was discovered on Tuesday morning at a cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, close to the border with Germany in the Alsace region, a statement from the regional security office said.
Photos show the Nazi symbols in blue paint spray-painted on the damaged graves, one of which bears the words 'Elsassisches Schwarzen Wolfe' ("Black Alsacian Wolves), a separatist group with links to neo-Nazis in the 1970s...
Last year, French police recorded a 74 percent surge in reported anti-Jewish offences, causing alarm in a country that is home to the biggest Jewish population in Europe..."
February 19, 2019
80 graves vandalized at Jewish cemetery in France
Swastikas painted on graves at a Jewish cemetery in the French town of Quatzenheim, February 19, 2019
Date
February 19, 2019
Title
80 graves vandalized at Jewish cemetery in France, The Times of Israel
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AFP
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