French Jewish graves vandalised in Sarre-Union
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These gravestones were knocked over, while others were covered in swastikas
Hundreds of Jewish graves have been desecrated at a cemetery in eastern France, near the border with Germany.
Images on social media showed the gravestones in Sarre-Union daubed with swastikas and Nazi slogans.
On his Twitter feed, external, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said every effort would be made to catch the perpetrators of an "ignoble and anti-Semitic act, an insult to memory".
Anti-Semitic attacks have risen sharply in France in recent years.
A kosher supermarket in Paris was one of the sites targeted by Islamist gunmen in a series of attacks last month which left 17 people dead.
A special investigative team is at the cemetery in Sarre-Union, the French news agency AFP reports, quoting Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
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