Tags have been inscribed on the memory center of Oradour-sur-Glane (Haute-Vienne), martyred village of the Second World War, announced Friday August 21 to Agence France-Presse (AFP) its president, Fabrice Escure. He said he wanted to file a complaint.
In one Tweet, Jean Castex assured that everything was “Implemented so that the perpetrators of these infamous acts answer to justice”. “I learned with anger and dismay the degradation of the Oradour-sur-Glane memory center. To soil this place of meditation is also to soil the memory of our martyrs ”, he adds.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, for his part evokes “Negationist inscriptions” on Twitter and talk about “Spitting on the memory of our martyrs”.
” Liar “
On a photo uploaded by the Popular in the center, we see the word “martyr” scratched in the paint, a blue tarpaulin covering inscriptions. According to the newspaper, “The word ‘liar’ has been added as well as a reference to a revisionist and to the theories which regularly resurface about the martyr village of Haut-Viennois”. An investigation was opened at the Limoges prosecutor’s office, according to a close source.
On June 10, 1944, the SS “Das Reich” division killed 642 villagers in Oradour-sur-Glane. The Germans had rounded up the men in the village barns and shot them. They had gathered women and children in the church before setting it on fire.
The memory center, opened in 1996, explains to visitors to the ruins of the martyr village – around 300,000 people each year – the background to the massacre.
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