The Interior Minister has made the announcement after his solidarity visit to Copenhagen just suffered two attacks, including one against a synagogue, hundreds of graves were desecrated the Jewish cemetery Sarre-Union in Lower Rhine. It is a walker who would have noticed that the gate of the cemetery had been degraded, and that alerted the police on Sunday, shortly before 17 hours. Last night, in a dark night, the only access to the cemetery tarred isolated dwellings by a bridge over a railroad track, was blocked by police. Criminal identification technicians came from Strasbourg, bustled with spotlights and flashlights.
According to a source close to the investigation, three quarters of queque 400 graves in the cemetery were desecrated according to initial findings. This is “damage” and “no entry was found” nor swastika or claim, says one. The Prefect of the Lower Rhine and the prosecutor Saverne went there in the early evening, and the Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg René Gutman, and Philippe Richert, president of the Alsace region.
The Republic will not tolerate this new injury “
Bernard Cazeneuve condemned “with the utmost firmness” this “heinous act”. “The Republic will not tolerate this new injury that harms the values that all the French have in common,” said Bernard Cazeneuve, without providing further Details of the “desecration”.
Asked on TF1, the Minister of the Interior has renewed his call to respond with greater severity of these heinous acts. In turn, François Hollande has announced that “all [would] be implemented” to the authors “of this heinous and barbaric act” be “identified and punished.” France is “determined to fight relentlessly against the Semitism and those who want to undermine
values of the Republic, “said a statement from the Elysee.
Shortly after, the Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, sent a tweet in which he strongly condemns this “despicable act”.
“This is a picture of desolation [...] Many steles are down, horizontal slabs were even raised”, described the president of the Alsace region, Philippe Richert, also went there. AFP. He referred to a “hard”, “something organized” because “we do not like that reverses heavy sandstone stele of the 19th century as easily. There was a desire to destroy,” he has said.
Roger Cukierman, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) told AFP on Sunday to have “sick of all these anti-Semitic acts in their various forms.”
“That people arrived to commit such cowardly acts to tackle the tombs shows a lack of moral and ethical values, and
Education National has failed in its mission, “he added. “We now need in the sixth, it teaches children respect for each other, the dignity of the individual, regardless of the color of his skin, his religion and we arrive to eradicate hatred, cowardice, which leads young men who were born in our territory, which were attended school in the Republic to commit immoral acts, “he continued.
The Chief Rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, himself has condemned “an increasingly virulent anti-Semitism, which attacks the dead and the living.”
“insult to the national community”
Claude Bartolone called Sunday night “insult to the whole national community” “the hateful desecration” of hundreds of Jewish graves in Sarre-Union. In a statement, the president of the National Assembly wrote that “this outrage to the memory of the dead, beyond the pain of families already affected by a similar crime in the same place he was fourteen, is an insult to the entire national community. ”
“We will never waver in the fight against those who want to sow hatred in our country nor leave a feeling of terror win. Never Republic disarm the face of anti-Semitic barbarism because they are our most important shared values that are broken. I know that everything is done to rapidly identify these enemies of democracy so that they are brought to justice, “he added.
This is not the first time that the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union is the subject of desecration. In 1988, sixty Jewish headstones were overturned, and in 2001, 54 graves were vandalized.
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