Several anti-Semitic tags were discovered on Saturday on the exterior wall of the Rouffach cemetery, in Haut-Rhin, the prefecture announced.
"Anti-Semitic tags were discovered this morning on the outer wall of the Rouffach cemetery as well as on the wall of an adjoining barn," the prefecture said in a statement.
No grave has been desecrated.
The three inscriptions "Death to the Jews", traced with a bomb, were visible from the road and were discovered by a municipal agent, detailed the prefecture, adding that investigations were in progress, carried out by the gendarmerie, in charge of the 'investigation.
Strong conviction
According to the newspaper l'Alsace, the registrations were erased after samples were taken, the mayor of this small town located between Colmar and Mulhouse having also filed a complaint.
“The prefect of Haut-Rhin, Louis Laugier, strongly condemns these hateful inscriptions and recalls the entire mobilization of the State against such acts.
Anti-Semitism and all other forms of hatred have no place in our Republic, ”adds the prefecture's press release.
In one year, from the end of 2018 to the end of 2019, 240 graves were desecrated, covered with neo-Nazi tags in three Alsatian Jewish cemeteries.
The perpetrators of these desecrations have still not been identified.
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