Over the weekend, someone wrote “Death to Jews” on a wall of the Notre Dame Cathedral.

PARIS - Anti-Semitic graffiti, including a sign saying “death to Jews,” was found Saturday scrawled on the grounds of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

The graffiti, which included a swastika, was written in black marker on a low wall along the cathedral facing the Seine River. Three stones of the wall had been dislodged, police said.

Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said he was “saddened and sickened” by the vandalism. “I deeply hope that those responsible for this new insult to the values of our civilization will be quickly identified and severely sanctioned,” he said.

The graffiti was discovered four days after vandals wrote anti-Semitic slurs on about 60 tombstones in a cemetery in the southeastern city of Lyon. Similar graffiti also covered a World War II monument to Jewish soldiers at the entrance to La Mouche cemetery.