The five minors arrested in connection with the investigation into the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union (Bas-Rhin) were indicted and placed under judicial control, said Wednesday night the floor of Saverne. Four of them were subjected to an investment measure educational center, one in a detention center, while the fifth was “entrusted to a trusted third party,” said the prosecutor of the Republic of Saverne in a statement.
The Semitic mobile now appears “clear” in the desecration of the Cemetery Jewish Sarre-Union (Bas-Rhin ), as the prosecutor who asked Wednesday they were under investigation. “Despite the denials of the beneficiaries, and anti-Semitic overtones of their behavior mobile now appear clearly” on the evidence gathered by the investigation, the prosecutor said Saverne Philippe Vannier, during a press briefing in the earlier day. Arrested Monday after one of them had surrendered himself to the police, frightened by the media coverage of the case, the five boys, aged 15 to 17 years, were “all acknowledged their participation in damage “said the prosecutor.
” They continue to say they do not feel anti-Semitic, “but their behavior has shown that” anti-Semitic background was at work ” according to Philippe Vannier: teenagers and describes “revealing gestures and words” as “Nazi salutes,” spitting on Star of David, or antisemitic slurs like “dirty Jews” or “dirty race”. He said he had requested a criminal investigation for “violation and desecration of burials because of the religion of the deceased” and “property damage” in a meeting. The prosecutor asked the indictment of five teenagers and their placing under judicial supervision, and their placement in an educational center. For two of them, he asked whether a closed educational center.
“A game that went wrong” (Attorney)
The rampage, dating back to Thursday and was not discovered until Sunday seems to be “out of a game, the game went wrong,” he told the prosecutor: a first act triggered a “sort of collective frenzy” which led the teenagers to overthrow the stelae, break plates 250 graves and a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. Dozens of samples were seized and sealed by the police. Escorted by the latter, five teenagers arrived together at mid-morning high court Saverne, their faces hidden by blankets.
They still appearing in the late afternoon before Judge instruction, hearings likely to last well into the evening. The defendants are liable seven years in prison, said the prosecutor, adding that the law provides for them a mitigating circumstance, which may reduce the sentence by two, but that excuse could be dismissed by the court. “We are not even discussing the penalty,” he clarified, however, saying that the investigation was continuing to determine responsibilities. According to the prosecutor, one of them had “an aura” vis-à-vis the other: it “seems to have exercised control over others”
250 graves vandalized
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This desecration of very large – some 250 graves were vandalized in the Alsatian town of 3000 inhabitants – since its discovery has sparked strong indignation Sunday. “Profane is insulting all religions”, said Francois Hollande Tuesday during a remembrance ceremony held on site in the presence of numerous political and religious leaders. The head of the state, which he himself had walked the aisles of the necropolis, also promised to the Jews of France that the Republic would defend “with all his might.”
The lack of understanding is to all the greater in Sarre-Union several young people arrested were enrolled in high school in the city. According to the mayor, Marc Senna, they were not from “families that posed particular problems.” “Some parents have expressed in the presence of the gendarmes a strong condemnation of the actions” of the act of their children, recognized the prosecutor. The case was followed by the discovery of damage in two Cemetery s, Tuesday and Wednesday in villages of Calvados and Haute-Garonne: acts qualified “unworthy “the President of the Republic, who promised that” everything will be done to ensure that the perpetrators are swiftly identified and punished. “
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