Vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg was discovered on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Some 30 gravestones were attacked, including 18 painted with swastikas and 13 overturned, in Cronenbourg, a neighborhood in the northeastern French town of Strasbourg.
The German phrase “Juden Raus,” or “Jews, out,” also was written on one tomb.
The vandalism was discovered Jan. 27, but police have not yet determined when the attack took place.
Laurent Schmoll, president of the approximately 1,000-member Jewish community in Strasbourg, told reporters that he believed the cemetery was defiled in connection with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. — jta