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Five French Teens Held for Vandalizing Jewish Graves
Pierre, Francois, Jean-Luc?
Five adolescents aged 15 to 17 have been detained for questioning in eastern La Belle France over the vandalism of Jewish graves, a local prosecutor said on Monday.

All five are from the region of Sarre-Union in Alsace, where around 300 tombs were defaced and damaged on Thursday.

The youngest came forward after being shocked by the massive reaction across the country to the vandalism, prosecutor Philippe Vannier said.

"Apparently, he was very very affected by the scale of the reaction to this affair, including the statements from the highest state authorities," Vannier told news hounds.

The boy, who was encouraged to hand himself in by one of his friends, has denied any anti-Semitic motive, Vannier added.
He's similarly vandalized Catholic and Muslim graveyards, then? Perhaps sprayed the Star of David in Muslim gravestones and pentagrams on the Christian ones to be equally insulting?
"We don't know the motives of these adolescents who don't have past criminal records and we don't know of any ideological convictions that could explain their behaviour.

"They are very very shocked by the turn of events."
Punishment starts with them cleaning up all the damage they did.
The five boys pushed over tombstones in the cemetery and opened up vaults. A monument to the victims of the Holocaust at the entrance was also vandalized.

The incident was condemned by the government, with Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve calling it "a despicable act" on Sunday, while Prime Minister Manuel Valls described it as "anti-Semitic and ignoble" on Twitter.

It is not the first time that a Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union has been targeted. In 1988, around 60 Jewish steles were knocked over, and 54 tombs were wrecked in 2001.
Apparently we're not to learn if their names were actually Henri Alkateb, Michel Sahnoun, and Toulouse Hannachi.

Posted by: trailing wife 2015-02-17
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