Paris (CNN) French police have launched an investigation after Nazi swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted on 107 graves in a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, who visited the cemetery in Westhoffen, eastern France, on Wednesday morning, described the incident as a "heinous act of anti-Semitism." "I want to say to those who think they can come here in the middle of the night and tarnish the memory of those who are buried here. Tarnish the memory of our French republic ... People look at graves at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg after they were desecrated with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti.

Source: CNN December 04, 2019 12:45 UTC