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Oradour's negationist tags arouse outrage

2020-08-23T19:16:09.968Z


This is the first time that the martyr village of Haute-Vienne has been vandalized in this way. An investigation is underway.


Indignation, sadness, anger: reactions to the act of vandalism perpetrated last Friday at the entrance to the ruins of the martyred village of Oradour-sur-Glane multiplied during the weekend, coming from all walks of life. But the most poignant is probably that of Robert Hebras.

To read also: Oradour-sur-Glane: after the massacre of June 10, 1944, Le Figaro recreates the tragic hours

Aged 95, he is the last of six survivors of the massacre of 642 people, men, women and children, committed on June 10, 1944 by a company of the second armored division of the SS, the Das Reich division. Seventy-six years later, this man whose mother and sisters died that day is still fighting for their memory. Sunday, he spoke to the Parisian about the tags referring to Vincent Reynouard, a former professor of mathematics defending negationist theses. “It’s an open wound for me. I wanted to pass on the memory of Oradour during all these years, but we forget it, as elsewhere. Remember that children and women have disappeared so

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Source: lefigaro

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