Brittany: antisemitic and neo-Nazi inscriptions discovered at a prominent Resistance site

Anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi inscriptions were discovered Saturday on the La Butte Rouge commemorative monument, in the town of Plœuc-L'Hermitage.

This monument in Plœuc-L'Hermitage is dedicated to fifty-five people executed on this site by the Nazis in 1944, according to the department's prefecture.

“These intolerable acts of vandalism (damage) the memory of those who fought against barbarism for our freedom,” denounces the prefecture in a statement.

The prefect of Côtes-d'Armor condemned “with the greatest firmness these intolerable acts of vandalism.”

While Sunday, July 16, is the national day of tribute to the Righteous of France, antisemitic and neo-Nazi tags were noticed on a monument in Ploeuc-L'Hermitage, in Côtes-d'Armor.

The monument “honors the memory of the 55 martyrs, resistance fighters or hostages, executed by the Nazis during the Second World War in 1944 in the forest of La Perche” Anti-Semitic inscriptions and