Near Toulouse. About fifty graves desecrated in the middle of the night in a cemetery
By Quentin Marais
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Located west of Toulouse, the municipality of Fontenilles woke up, Monday, December 5, 2022, with outrageous discoveries. Graves and Mailboxes have been the target of desecration and degradation. The town hall filed a complaint.
Alerts by a resident
It was in the early morning that the municipal police and the town hall were contacted by a resident. “On a first discovered registrations on mailboxes of a housing estate. There were damage and cross swastikas“, tell to Toulouse news, Christopher Tountevichthe first edile of Fontenilles.
The houses being located right next to the graveyard, “the municipal police went around the space and went to take a look”.
About fifty desecrated graves
The old and the new cemetery are united in a single enclosure. And this one suffered the same fate. ” Roughly about fifty graves have been degraded”, comments the first city councilor. These are facts that we never knew in Fontenilles. This is inexcusable. That dirty the memory dead and families. »
“We found swastikas, ‘Satan’ inscriptions, other satanic symbols, upside-down crosses, broken flower pots for some graves… It is assumed that it was done in the night from Sunday to Monday. the city’s technical services, which I thank again, quickly cleaned up the registrations.”
Unfortunately, some traces are not parties. “We couldn’t clean a grave, which is old and a bit made of cement”, regrets the mayor.
The elected official quickly made contact with the families affected by these degradations, “ to warn them of the situation.
Complaint and investigation
Christophe Tountevich announced that the city had immediately filed a complaint. “According to the first feedback we can get from the gendarmerie, it seems that it is the act of one or more young adolescents. The gendarmes are trying to find the perpetrators. »
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