anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi inscriptions discovered on a monument commemorating the Resistance in Ploeuc-L’Hermitage

Anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi inscriptions were found on the commemorative monument of La Butte Rouge, a high place of the Resistance, in the town of Plœuc-L’Hermitage (Côtes-d’Armor), Saturday July 15, learned franceinfo from the prefecture of Côtes-d’Armor.

This monument honors the memory of the 55 martyrs, resistance fighters or hostages, executed by the Nazis during the Second World War in 1944 in the Perche forest.

The prefect of the department, Stéphane Rouvé, “Condemns in the strongest terms these intolerable acts of vandalism that undermine the memory of those who fought barbarism for our freedom”can we read on the Twitter account of the prefect.

“On the eve of the national day in memory of the victims of racist and anti-Semitic crimes by the French State and of homage to the ‘Righteous’ of France which will be held this Sunday, July 16, these abject degradations remind us that the fight waged by these martyrs is still topical”he concludes.