Graffiti in Nazi massacre memorial village condemned by French politicians
PARIS — French politicians of all political opinions roundly condemned graffiti denying the Holocaust that became once scrawled on a wall in the village that became once the positioning of the France’s biggest massacre of civilians by the Nazis in the midst of World Battle II on Saturday.
The uncommon repeat of solidarity, from French President Emmanuel Macron to the a ways-left and the a ways-factual, underscored the symbolism of Oradour-sur-Glane as a perpetual reminder of the horrors of Nazi occupation of France. The village has remained untouched since the massacre.
Macron, who visited the village after his 2017 election victory, vowed that “all shall be executed” to settle on these that defaced the wall at the doorway of the Heart for Remembrance.
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Officials in Oradour-Sur-Glane, which is arrive Limoges in central France, threw up a tarp to duvet the graffiti that became once stumbled on Friday. The note “Lie” became once scrawled on the wall, along with other graffiti, in preserving with the regional paper Le Populaire du Centre. The inscription “Martyr Village” became once crossed out.
The Le Figaro newspaper quoted the village’s mayor, Philippe Lacroix, as announcing that the title of a known Holocaust denier became once inscribed on the wall.
“Shame on these that did this,” Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti tweeted. “All shall be executed to search out and think these that committed these sacrilegious acts.”
Internal Minister Gerald Darmanin denounced the “abject dust” in a Friday evening tweet. Prime Minister Jean Castex mentioned the graffiti “dirties the memory of our martyrs.”
Far-factual leader Marine Le Pen tweeted that “it be time for once and for all … to forestall the recurrence of these acts that harm us all.”
Troops from the fanatical SS “Das Reich” division had been accountable for killing 642 villagers on June 10, 1944, herding them into barns and a church and setting town on fire. While a fresh village has been constructed, the ruins of the archaic town glean been cared for as an affidavit to Nazi horrors.
The massacre took place four days after the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy. The killings had been believed to glean been ordered in retaliation for the kidnapping of a German soldier by the French Resistance.