Strasbourg
It took seven years for justice to recognize the damage suffered by the families of the deceased in the Jewish cemetery of Sarre-Union, desecrated in February 2015. For the first time, however, a court, in this case the juvenile court of Saverne, condemns the profaners to pay sums beyond the symbolic euro.
More than 80,000 euros in damages and 11,000 euros for lawyers' fees must be paid, jointly and severally, by the five young people and their families, who have never expressed regret.
A month after the first attacks that had mourned Paris, five teenagers aged 13 to 16 had devastated the Jewish cemetery of Sarre-Union.
Of the 524 headstones, the oldest of which dates back to 1822, 269 monuments had been ransacked, the plaques of the memorial to the victims of the Shoah broken.
"How much hate did it take to desecrate so many graves?"
asked Maurice Dahan, president of the Israelite consistory…
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