About sixty graves were desecrated on the night of October 26 to 27, in the Catholic square of the Pont-de-Justice cemetery, in Nîmes (Gard), reports
Midi Libre
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Funerary objects, plaques, stelae or statuettes, were stolen.
An investigation was opened, to try to find the criminal or criminals, continues the regional daily, which specifies that no inscription was found in the cemetery.
In addition, no other act of vandalism has been observed in the other cemeteries of the city, indicates the municipality, which will intensify the surveillance of these places.
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Graveyard
Desecration
Nimes
Occitania
Languedoc Roussillon
Investigation