The village of Oradour-sur-Glane. - GILE MICHEL

"Firmness" in the face of this act. A “dirty” memory. The "disgust". The political class as a whole condemned this Saturday the negationist tags discovered the day before at the entrance to the ruins of the martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane (Haute-Vienne), where the SS Das Reich division had killed 642 villagers on the 10th June 1944.

A photo taken by the People of the Center shows the facade of the memory center, with the word “martyr” striped in white paint, a blue tarp covering the rest of the inscription. "That we cross out the word martyr, that we put a liar and the name of a revisionist instead, you understand that we are shocked", indicated the mayor of Oradour-sur-Glane, Philippe Lacroix.

From Mélenchon to Le Pen

While he promised that "everything will be done" to prosecute the authors of the tags, the Head of State "strongly condemns this unspeakable act", communicated the Elysee. "To soil this place of meditation is also to soil the memory of our martyrs", regretted for his part the Prime Minister, Jean Castex.

In the opposition, the leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, said he was “disgusted by the profanation”. “Neither forgetting nor forgiveness,” he adds on Twitter.

Disgusted by the desecration of # OradourSurGlane, a village martyred by the abject barbarism of the SS Das Reich division. Neither forgetting nor forgiveness.

- Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) August 22, 2020

The national secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, was “outraged and repelled”. “Holocaust denial is as much a barbarism as was that of Nazism. "

The socialist president of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Alain Rousset, speaks of “unworthy and cowardly” acts in a press release. "This should encourage us to maintain the memory of this place and its history before all the more force" he continues. On the right, the deputy LR Eric Ciotti calls "not to trivialize such acts and to strengthen the transmission of this memory".

Disgusted and revolted by the revisionist tags which soil the memory of the victims of Nazi hatred in Oradour-sur-Glane

Let us be careful not to trivialize such acts and to strengthen the transmission of this memory which obliges us and protects us from the demons of the barbarity. https://t.co/hRv3IFTWLg

- Eric Ciotti (@ECiotti) August 22, 2020

And on the far right, for Marine Le Pen, "it would be time to put a good screw on to stop this upsurge in acts which are shocking".

The center remained open

A complaint was filed on Saturday morning and an investigation is underway. The memory center, which explains to visitors to the ruins of the martyr village - about 300,000 people each year - the context of the massacre, has remained open.

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