Ten Jewish steles were discovered defaced on Wednesday in the German military cemetery from the First World War in Moulin-sous-Touvent (Oise), the prefecture announced in a statement.
The national gendarmerie “immediately launched an investigation” and the Compiègne public prosecutor’s office was informed of the facts, added the Oise prefecture. The prosecution opened an investigation for “violation of graves or monuments initiated in memory of deaths committed because of race, ethnicity, nation, religion”, he told AFP.