They desecrated another cemetery with anti-Semitic graffiti in France

A day after a mbadive march against anti-Semitism and the desecration of more than 80 graves in a cemetery in eastern France have appeared new graffiti in another cemetery, in Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or, a village located near Lyon.

Two badly drawn swastikas They appeared on a stele of the "Garden of Remembrance", a non-denominational place where families of deceased cremates can disperse their ashes, as well as anti-Semitic and denialist inscriptions: "shoah blah blah", says one of her.

The authorities opened an investigation and repudiated the incident. The prefect of Lyon, Pascal Mailhos, condemned these inscriptions "with the strongest firmness" on Twitter. He recalled that "anti-Semitism, xenophobia, homophobia or any other form of hatred have no place in our Republic".

With more than 500,000 people, the French Jewish community is the largest in Europeand the largest in the world after the United States and Israel.

According to the Government, there was a 74% annual increase in antisemitic attacks in France in 2018, for a total of 541, against 311 in 2017.

On Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron promised to take "measures" and enforce laws to fight the wave of anti-Semitism.

France is not the only European country affected by this scourge. Germany also recorded a sharp increase in antisemitic acts in 2018, with 1,646 registered highest level for almost ten years.