The investigators arrived Wednesday morning in a Catholic cemetery small village in the Calvados, Tracy-sur-Mer, where funeral ornaments were thrown to the ground yesterday, sparking outrage the Prime Minister, noted AFP.
“A dozen small cross were returned and planted in the ground, out of a total of 30 to 40 affected graves. There is no registration on the graves, “said Mayor Tracy-sur-Mer, Jean Bedez alerted Tuesday around 17.30.
The tombstones, steles and stone crosses were not broken but crucifixes and ornaments have been displaced, said the gendarme colonel Bruno Jacob. “There is no violation of burial or registration,” said he said at a press conference in front of the cemetery.
In recent weeks, similar damage was found in cemeteries within 10 km of Tracy-sur-Mer, Ryes, Longues-sur-mer and Sommervieux, according to police.
Mr Bedez, Tracy degradation have “nothing to do with what happened in Sarre-Union” (Bas-Rhin), where 250 graves were desecrated in a Jewish cemetery earlier this week.
“To me, it’s more (does) a gang of youths either alcoholic or smoky” added the mayor. Questioned by AFP, Col. Jacob also said “look instead for the hypothesis” free vandalism.
Bayeux Research Gendarmerie brigade arrived at the scene. Access to the cemetery has been banned and the small village of 365 inhabitants.
The cemetery, located on the edge of a departmental, less than 2 km from the landing beaches, in 100 to 150 graves in total, including several very old have been degraded by time, according to the mayor, who has corrected the figures he had given earlier.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls expressed his Twitter account his “disgust and outrage at the damage committed in the cemetery of Tracy-sur-Mer. # Enough!”.
“Every effort will be made to identify, challenge and bring to justice the perpetrators of these outrageous acts that violate our values and respect that seal our living together”, said Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, which these degradations announced in a statement that night.
In the Sarre-Union case, five suspected Snatchers, minor adolescents, aged 15 to 17 years, from the region and without a criminal record are since Monday in custody. They defend any Semitism
02/18/2015 9:27:14. – Tracy-sur-Mer (France) (AFP) – Â © 2015 AFP
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