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), told AFP the prosecutor Briey Yves Le Clair.
The young suspects, motivations “Gothic” according to the prosecutor, acknowledged the facts. The girl, according to investigators who would not enter the cemetery was simply heard, while the two boys were taken into custody, said the magistrate.
The eldest lost his father a year ago, which has “greatly disturbed” according to the mayor of this village 1700 inhabitants, Luc Ritz, which evokes made “shocking and reprehensible” .
They face six months in prison
The three teenagers, who live nearby Labry, should be submitted to a juvenile judge for a indictment for “violation of sepulcher” , a punishable offense for minors, six months in prison.
The teens are suspected to have degraded forty graves, mainly by moving crucifixes and other funerary objects. Several were notably crucifix back, head down, and four items in total were broken, according to the prosecutor.
A small registration “666″ , considered the “number of the devil” with the Gothic and other Satanists, was also placed on a tombstone, said a journalist from AFP.
forensic investigators were on hand Tuesday morning in the cemetery of the village, said a journalist from AFP.
Reactions and sentences
The facts observed Sunday by families visiting the cemetery, and then reported to the mayor and the police, had been made public Monday by the Interior Ministry.
“These acts should be severely punished “, said on Tuesday in a tweet Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who expressed his ” indignation “.
Several politicians, including right, also strongly condemned these facts.
MEP and former Minister (Republicans) Nadine Morano, elected Lorraine, expressed “deeply shocked” during a visit. “We can not simply say that it is the human stupidity (…). We have the impression that we want to attack our Christian roots “, she commented.
In a posting declaration on the diocese of Nancy on the site, the priest of Labry, Gerard Cappannelli, had mentioned in the morning assuming a “schoolboy affair” and stressed that should be in this case to explain to perpetrators that “respects cemetery as one yourself respects” .
Vive emotion in the village
Before the announcement of arrests, dozens of villagers had gone to the cemetery to see if the graves of their relatives were involved.
“We knew it last night, we were a little stunned … I do not know qualify that, we do not do that! “, exclaimed Alain, a waterfront that is however not directly affected because the graves of his parents and grandparents were not degraded.
According to the Ministry of Interior, “This is the fifth cemetery desecration in the department since the beginning of the year” .
Questioned by AFP, the prefecture has however said that the four previous episodes evoked by the Ministry – which have not been reported by the local press, or very little – were “smaller scale phenomena that happened to Labry” .
“unacceptable acts of vandalism”
These downgrades were also condemned by the representatives of the Muslim world. “I would like to express my indignation and my anger against those who do not even let the dead rest in peace” , commented Abdallah Zekri, president of the National Observatory against Islamophobia and Vice President of French Council of the Muslim Faith.
The rector of the Paris Mosque, Dalil Boubaker, condemned his side a “blind hatred surge” and “acts unacceptable vandalism “ ” shock the conscience of every believer “.
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