Posted on 02/16/2015 1:38:13 PM PST by grundle
Saverne (France) (AFP) - French prosecutors said Monday they had taken five teenagers into custody suspected of vandalising hundreds of Jewish graves, an act that prompted fresh pleas for Jews not to turn their back on France.
The boys are aged between 15 and 17 and all come from Sarre-Union in Alsace, eastern France, where around 300 tombs were defaced and damaged on Thursday.
The youngest came forward after seeing the scale of the 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 reporters.
French President Francois Hollande will visit the area on Tuesday.
The boy, who was encouraged to hand himself in by one of his friends, has denied any anti-Semitic motive, Vannier added.
"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."
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 vandalised.
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Are these yutes or just teenagers?
SandMonkey “Utes?”
No indication in the story what their motives were. Antisemitic? Muslims? Jerks? No way to tell.
“Asians”?
I suppose their upbringing has nothing to do with it, either.
Jacques or Mohammed, Mohammed, Mohammed, Mohammed and Mohammed?
If they’re not muslim punks, I’ll be suprised! We shall see.
Or regular Cheese-Eating-Surrender-Monkey “Utes?”
These days “French” can be just about anything.
“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.”
If the motives weren’t criminal or ideological, the list of alternatives becomes very short.
Shame on you for profiling! It is just a coincidence that four of the five are named Mohammed. The one who admitted shame cannot be.
When the MSM doesn’t tell you, you know who they are.
I still remember kids who thought it was great fun to go turn over gravestones in the local cemetery.
Their parents warmed their britches and the next day they were out setting the stones up proper again.
But then, that was when there was still some code of conduct in the USA.
Desecrating a Jewish cemetery? What possible motive could they have? I note that the names are not given....
Just "random" Jewish graves defaced by regular folks.
LIST! We need a list of these.
Well, they were rounded up pretty fast.
Names? Pierre or Ahkmed? Olivier or Al-masri?
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