British WWI Graves Desecrated In France

Posted by admin on Jun 11, 2010

Vandals have desecrated a British World War I cemetery in northeastern France’s Pas-de-Calais region.

They daubed 12 soldiers’ graves with pink swastikas and other Nazi signs.

France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the attack in a letter to the Queen.

The cemetery in the town of Loos-en-Gohelle holds the remains of more than 2,000 British and Canadian soldiers who died while fighting in an October 1915 battle there.

The graves are believed to have been vandalised overnight.

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