Posted on 08/02/2005 6:08:59 AM PDT by knighthawk
LILLE, France (AFP) - A cemetery in northern France holding the remains of British soldiers killed in World War I has been desecrated, with 42 headstones broken and one scorched by a Molotov cocktail, French police said.
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The vandalism occurred late last week in the Albuera cemetery in Bailleul-Sir-Berthoult, near Lille. The graveyard's visitors' book was also torched, police said Tuesday. No inscriptions were found.
"Two or three broken headstones, that unfortunately happens sometimes. But 42 -- that's never occurred. Everybody is shocked," said a spokesman for Britain's Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Christopher Farrell.
The military cemetery, which contains 252 tombs, is one of 1,500 in France, where more than 400,000 soldiers from Britain and its former colonies are buried.
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This is one thing the French are very good at.
Most likely muzzies anonymously getting back at the Brits. The Brits need to post a Marine Recon sniper in these graveyards. Oooorahhhh...get some!
These punks probably have never even heard of the battle of the Somme.
Seems this type of thing happens all too frequently in france.
When Monaco decides to invade and kill maime and pillage france I think we should help them do it.
With all that has been happening of late, I now know why none of the Brits I know or have met, like the Frogs or the Germans.
Sickening.
I'll bet you a large sum of money that the people who did that were "French" only by way of Algeria or Morocco.
Next time the Germans invade France (and you know they will), we ought to get really serious about punishing them. Make 'em keep it!
I think you are correct. There is no motive behind it being the French. But is plenty of Muslim motive and plenty of Muslims in France.
Lille is has a large Muslim population and is, in fact, home to the first Muslim private school in mainland France, Lycee Averroes. The school is, of course, in a mosque.
TROP alert.
F@#2#$%4%^$5SJ!!!
Bingo!
The French were bled white by WWI. It wouldn't have been them. It must have been the Islamofascists. Well, take your best shot Mohammed - the dead are with God. The real God.
Islamicrazies are picking only the fights they think they can win.
Probably kids of a particular religious persuasion :)
Many French families "adopt" grave(s) and tend them very carefully for generations.
Well, they gotta lotta darn gaul....
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