Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Cemetery desecration in Lorraine: three detained minors – Le Figaro

VIDEO – The young suspects are aged 12-15 years and have “gothic” motives. They recognized desecrating the Christian cemetery in Labry, in eastern France, with “crucifix returned and a degraded or broken grave marker”

motivations “Gothic.” A 12 year old girl and two boys aged 14 and 15 were arrested Tuesday in the investigation of the damage committed on forty Christian tombs to Labry (Meurthe-Moselle), announced the prosecutor of Briey Yves Le Clair. Suspects youth, “gothic” motives according to the prosecutor, acknowledged the desecration of the cemetery. The girl, according to investigators who would not enter the cemetery was simply heard, while the two boys were taken into custody.

Several dozen tombs were desecrated in Labry, in eastern France, with “crucifix returned and a degraded or broken grave marker.” “On Monday afternoon, the police (…) found the desecration of forty Christian tombs in the cemetery of the town of Labry” in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, then indicated the Ministry Interior, stating that “it is the fifth cemetery desecration in the department since the beginning of the year.” “These unacceptable acts call a firm penal response. The surveys will enable to prosecute the guilty, “said the Interior Ministry.

“We take this very seriously,” said the prosecutor of Briey Yves Le Clair, who however spoke of “damage” rather than a “desecration”. According to him, “thirty-five funeral ornaments, mainly crucifixes and plates were moved”, four of which have been broken. “The military cemetery that adjoins the civil cemetery is place these facts did not suffer any damage,” said he again emphasized.

“According to the words of Mayor Labry these facts are likely to be the work of young idiots to do, “he told the prosecutor. The Prime Minister Manuel Valls also expressed this morning his “outrage at the desecration of Christian graves in Meurthe-et-Moselle,” saying in a tweet that “these acts will be punished harshly.”

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