The five people who desecrated the Jewish cemetery of Sarre-Union (Bas-Rhin) in 2015, minors at the time of the facts and already convicted in criminal proceedings, will have to pay 85,000 euros in moral damages to around forty civil parties.

A judgment qualified Tuesday as a “strong signal” by the Licra.

The perpetrators of this desecration, the most serious targeting a Jewish cemetery for twenty years, were between 15 and 17 years old at the time of the events.

They had been arrested a few days after the events, in February 2015, after one of them had surrendered himself to the gendarmerie.

The five miners ransacked nearly 270 graves.

Tombs had also been opened and the defilers had urinated on some graves.

Forty civil parties

On September 15, 2017, they were sentenced in criminal proceedings, by the juvenile court, to suspended sentences of eight to eighteen months in prison and 140 hours of community service, for desecration and degradation of graves " because of the belonging of the deceased persons to a particular religion”.

In detail, the sums awarded pronounced during the new conviction on Friday, this time in civil proceedings, range from 1,250 to 3,000 euros.

As a reminder, the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Sarre-Union had provoked very strong emotion.

The President of the Republic, François Hollande, had made the trip for a ceremony of meditation organized in the presence of many political and religious leaders.

At the end of October 2021, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, went to Sarre-Union for a ceremony marking the rehabilitation of the cemetery, after several years of restoration.

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