“There is no greater duty for the Republic than the protection of our Jewish compatriots who have suffered so much. To attack the dead is to attack civilization, ”
said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin this Thursday afternoon during the reopening ceremony of the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union. The place has remained closed since February 12, 2015.
"The Sunday of dishonor and shame,"
recalled the mayor of the town, Marc Séné, remembering the spectacle of desolation. Of the 524 stelae, the oldest of which dates from 1822, 269 monuments had been ransacked, the memorial plaques to the victims of the Shoah shattered. At the time, the president, François Hollande, came to recall that
"to desecrate is to defile the Republic".
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Welcomed by the Strasbourg resident Maurice Dahan, president of the Israelite consistory of Bas-Rhin, owner of the 44 Jewish cemeteries in the department, Gérald Darmanin, accompanied by the Alsatian minister Brigitte Klinkert, visited
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