French soldiers at the Douaumont ossuary in northeastern France. A spokeswoman for the nearby Verdun Memorial said it too was listed as a Pokemon gym. The ossuary had been the location of a Pokemon "gym", where rival teams do battle, while the plaque was a Pokestop, where players could collect virtual items. The French battlefields are not the first memorials to send players of the global sensation packing. The Douaumont ossuary in northeast France contains the remains of some of the more than 300,000 French and German soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest of the 1914-18 conflict.

Source: The Local August 09, 2016 16:41 UTC