Up to 400 Jewish gravestones desecrated and daubed with Nazi graffiti in ‘heinous anti-Semitic attack’ in French cemetery

• Attack at Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union in Alsace on German border
• Gravestones kicked over or had Nazi swastikas daubed on them in red
• France’s interior minister condemns the ‘odious act against tolerance’
• Gun attack on Denmark synagogue left Jewish man dead at weekend

[MailOnline] – Hundreds of Jewish graves have been desecrated in a ‘heinous anti-Semitic attack’ in France.

The country’s interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the attack happened at the main Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union, in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace, on the German border.

Mr Cazeneuve said ‘everything will be done to establish the identity of the perpetrators’ of the Sarre-Union attack ‘so as to bring them to justice’.

Manuel Valls, France’s Prime Minister, joined in condemning the ‘vile anti-Semitic act’, and also pledged that the criminals responsible would be brought to justice.

Many of the Jews buried in Sarre-Union were linked with the Second World War Holocaust, when some 76,000 French Jews were entrained to their deaths in German concentration camps.

Up to 400 gravestones were vandalised by being kicked over, or had Nazi swastikas daubed on them in red paint.

Mr Cazeneuve said ‘everything will be done to establish the identity of the perpetrators’ of the Sarre-Union attack ‘so as to bring them to justice’.

Manuel Valls, France’s Prime Minister, joined in condemning the ‘vile anti-Semitic act’, and also pledged that the criminals responsible would be brought to justice.

Many of the Jews buried in Sarre-Union were linked with the Second World War Holocaust, when some 76,000 French Jews were entrained to their deaths in German concentration camps.

Mr Cazeneuve said: ‘This was an odious act against religious freedom and tolerance. France will not tolerate this latest attack which harms the values all French people share.’

The incident follows the murder of four Jewish people by a Kalashnikov wielding terrorist following a siege in a Paris Kosher store last month.

Mr Cazeneuve said ‘everything will be done to establish the identity of the perpetrators’ of the Sarre-Union attack ‘so as to bring them to justice’.

Manuel Valls, France’s Prime Minister, joined in condemning the ‘vile anti-Semitic act’, and also pledged that the criminals responsible would be brought to justice.

Many of the Jews buried in Sarre-Union were linked with the Second World War Holocaust, when some 76,000 French Jews were entrained to their deaths in German concentration camps.