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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The Alsace region is becoming highly populated with Mooselimbs. It’s also near the German border. Hard to tell whose “yutes” these are.
A proper punishment would be tending the graves for 10 hours a week for 2 years.
Oh gee are they rag heads? Let me guess.
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