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| Outrage after General de Gaulle's tomb damaged by vandals |
| 2017-05-28 |
| [BBC]. Two suspects are being sought after vandals damaged the tomb of former French leader General Charles de Gaulle, sparking outrage. The authorities said a man stepped onto the grave and toppled a one-and-a-half metre cross at its head, which broke. The incident happened on Saturday, when the French Resistance against Nazi Germany was being commemorated. Thousands of people visit the site each year to pay their respects to a towering figure in 20th Century France. General de Gaulle led the French Resistance during World War Two, founded the Fifth Republic in the 1950s and led the country for a decade until 1969. He died in 1970 and is buried in the village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises in the northern département of Haute-Marne. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #3 France? What's France? Ah, you mean Northern Morocco? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-05-28 17:02 |
| #2 Aren't crosses haram in France now? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-05-28 16:58 |
| #1 Actually he was not the main leader of the resistance, Leclerc was more outspoken early on, what DeGaulle was was a superb opportunist and pushy pain in the ass who whined and cajoled his way into prominence and with Eisenhower's determination to hold the alliance together, acted like they had liberated Paris and most of France. That was his springboard, and the thanks the allies got, he pulled France out of NATO..... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2017-05-28 16:44 |