French Media: Jewish Cemeteries Defiled by Americans

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The French press is trying to blame the desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Alsace, France, on American neo-Nazi groups; here are Google translations of articles from Le Figaro, Le Monde, and Liberation.

(Hat tip: Mr Pol.)

UPDATE at 8/15/04 10:01:55 am:

Haaretz reports that “a man” has admitted desecrating graves in Lyon.

Last Tuesday, swastikas and slogans were found on 56 graves and a war memorial in Lyon, France’s second-largest city.

The man, who is about 30 years old, handed himself over to the police in Paris overnight, the source said.

After his confession he was transferred to Lyon where police searched his house and found “suspicious elements”, the source said, confirming a report by French radio station RTL.

Google’s semi-legible translation of a Le Monde article fills in the missing detail:

The suspect in police custody in the investigation into the profanation of the Jewish cemetery of Lyon arised spontaneously in a Parisian police station Saturday evening like “Phineas” and the author of degradations and the aggression of a man of origin maghr�bine, one indicated Sunday of polici�re.

“Origin maghr�bine” refers to someone of North African descent, probably Algerian.

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