The Semitic mobile now appears “clear” in the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union (Bas-Rhin), according to prosecutors on Wednesday asked that the indictment of five teenagers arrested in the case.
“Despite the denials of the beneficiaries, anti-Semitic connotation and the moving of their behavior now clearly appear” on the evidence gathered by the investigation, the prosecutor said Saverne Philippe Vannier, during a press briefing.
Challenged 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, have “all acknowledged their involvement in the damage,” said the prosecutor.
“They continue to say they do not feel anti-Semitic,” but their behavior has shown that “the bottom of Anti-Semitism 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
-. ‘Collective frenzy’ –
The rampage, which dates 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” that led adolescents to reverse stelae, breaking the plates of some 250 graves and a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
Several dozen samples were seized and sealed by the police.
escorted by gendarmes, 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 liable seven years in prison, said the prosecutor, adding that the law provides for them a mitigating circumstance, which can reduce the barely two, but that excuse could be dismissed by the court.
“We are not even discussing the penalty,” he clarified, however, saying that the investigation continued to determine the responsibilities of each
According to the prosecutor, one of them had “an aura” vis-à-vis the other. It “seems to have had a grip on the other “.
This desecration of very large -some 250 graves were vandalized in the Alsatian town of 3,000 inhabitants- since its discovery sparked strong indignation Sunday.
“To profane is insulting all religions”, said Tuesday Hollande, 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 misunderstanding is even greater in Sarre-Union several young 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, the prosecutor acknowledged
The case was followed by the discovery of damage in two cemeteries, Tuesday and Wednesday in villages of Calvados and Haute-Garonne: acts qualified “unworthy” by the President of the Republic, who promised that “everything will be implemented so that the perpetrators are swiftly identified and punished.”
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