Tags were discovered on the memory center of Oradour-sur-Glane, in the martyred village of the Second World War. At the microphone of AFP, the president of the site, Fabrice Escure, indicates that he wants to file a complaint. In a tweet, Jean Castex assured that "everything is done so that the authors of these infamous acts answer to justice". "I learned with anger and dismay the degradation of the memory center of Oradour-sur-Glane. To defile this place of meditation is also to soil the memory of our martyrs," he adds.
"Negationist inscriptions"
The Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin evokes for his part "negationist inscriptions" in a tweet and speaks of "spitting on the memory of our martyrs". In a photo uploaded by Le Populaire du Center, we see the word "martyr" scratched in the paint, a blue tarpaulin covering inscriptions. According to the newspaper, "the word 'liar' has been added as well as a reference to a revisionist and to the theories that regularly resurface about the martyr village of Upper Viennese." An investigation was opened at the Limoges public prosecutor's office.
On June 10, 1944, the SS Das Reich division killed 642 villagers in Oradour-sur-Glane. The Germans had rounded up the men in the village barns and shot them. They had gathered women and children in the church before setting it on fire. The memory center, opened in 1996, explains to visitors to the ruins of the martyr village the context of the massacre.