{"id":68101,"date":"2019-02-26T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68101"},"modified":"2019-02-26T08:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T06:49:58","slug":"06-05-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68101","title":{"rendered":"Macron visits cemetery where neo-Nazis scrawled swastikas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/sitelogos\/logo_mol.gif\" alt=\"MailOnline - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories\" width=\"35%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6720753\/Swastikas-scrawled-headstones-Jewish-cemetery-France.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Macron visits cemetery where neo-Nazis scrawled swastikas<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> JULIAN ROBINSON<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Macron visits cemetery where neo-Nazis scrawled swastikas on nearly 100 Jewish graves and vows to crack down on France&#8217;s growing anti-Semitism crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Vandals have targeted 96 graves at a Jewish cemetery in\u00a0Quatzenheim, France\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>French President Emmanuel Macron visited the burial site today, vowing to &#8216;act&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Vandalism happened as French cities geared up for mass rallies after a series of anti-Semitic acts that have shocked the nation<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to crack down on hate crimes after neo-Nazis scrawled swastikas on nearly 100 graves at a Jewish Cemetery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Macron went immediately to the cemetery in Quatzenheim in the Alsace region near Germany, a few hours ahead of nationwide rallies to denounce a surge in anti-Jewish hate crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8216;We shall act, we shall pass laws, we shall punish,&#8217; Macron told Jewish leaders while inspecting the 96 tombstones spray-painted with blue and yellow swastikas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8216;Those who did this are not worthy of the Republic,&#8217; he said, later placing a white rose on a tombstone commemorating Jews deported to Germany during World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Another grave bore the words &#8216;Elsassisches Schwarzen Wolfe&#8217; (&#8216;Black Alsatian Wolves), a separatist group with links to neo-Nazis in the 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/02\/19\/16\/10006038-6720753-image-a-47_1550592663361.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to crack down on hate crimes after neo-Nazis scrawled swastikas on nearly 100 graves at a Jewish Cemetery<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/02\/19\/16\/10006032-6720753-image-a-48_1550592666832.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Macron went immediately to the cemetery in Quatzenheim in the Alsace region near Germany, a few hours ahead of nationwide rallies to denounce a surge in anti-Jewish hate crimes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/02\/19\/16\/10006040-6720753-image-a-49_1550592672508.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Macron placed a white rose on a tombstone commemorating Jews deported to Germany during World War II<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><video controls=\"controls\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\"><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/preview\/mol\/2019\/02\/19\/5747898193186212984\/636x382_MP4_5747898193186212984.mp4 \n\" type=\"video\/mp4\" \/><\/video><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It was the second case of extensive cemetery desecration in the region since December, when nearly 40 graves as well as a monument to Holocaust victims were vandalised in Herrlisheim, about a half-hour drive from Quatzenheim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Macron was to also visit the Paris Holocaust memorial on Tuesday ahead of the anti-racism marches, called after a spate of anti-Jewish vandalism discovered in and around Paris following recent &#8216;yellow vest&#8217; protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Many French Jews are on edge after the government announced a 74 per cent jump in anti-Jewish offences in 2018 after two years of declines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Germany has also seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic crimes, with more than 1,600 cases recorded last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel&#8217;s Immigration Minister Yoav Gallant said the increase should prompt French Jews to move to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8216;I firmly condemn the anti-Semitism in France and call on the Jews: Come home, immigrate to Israel,&#8217; he said on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on slammed the &#8216;shocking&#8217; incident in a video released today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8216;Today something shocking happened in France. Eighty Jewish graves were desecrated with Nazi symbols by wild anti-Semites,&#8217; Netanyahu said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8216;I call on the leaders of France and Europe to take a strong stand against anti-Semitism. It is a plague that endangers everyone, not just us,&#8217; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/02\/19\/13\/9998054-6720753-image-a-1_1550581933807.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Swastikas have been scrawled on graves at a Jewish cemetery in France just hours before campaigners across the country were due to march against anti-Semitism<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>read more: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6720753\/Swastikas-scrawled-headstones-Jewish-cemetery-France.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Macron visits cemetery..<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macron visits cemetery where neo-Nazis scrawled swastikas JULIAN ROBINSON Macron visits cemetery where neo-Nazis scrawled swastikas on nearly 100 Jewish graves and vows to crack down on France&#8217;s growing anti-Semitism crisis Vandals have targeted 96 graves at a Jewish cemetery in\u00a0Quatzenheim, France\u00a0 French President Emmanuel Macron visited the burial site today, vowing to &#8216;act&#8217; Vandalism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68114,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68101\/revisions\/68114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}