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Muslim Tombs Targeted
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Published: December 9, 2008
PARIS - Vandals desecrated at least 500 tombs of Muslim soldiers in northern France on Monday - an act President Nicolas Sarkozy denounced as "repugnant racism."
The desecration near the town of Arras appeared timed with the start of Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday in the Muslim calendar.
The administration for the Pas-de-Calais region said the damaged tombs were in the Muslim section of the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette cemetery, a well-groomed burial ground for World War I soldiers. Some had swastikas scrawled on the tombstone, others had lettering whose meaning was unclear.
There are 576 graves in the Muslim section of the cemetery, where more than 30,000 soldiers are buried.
The Associated Press
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