Jewish graves were desecrated with Nazi slogans in France, and authorities believe that five teenagers were responsible for such serious violation.
According to NBC News, French police said they are currently questioning the five teenagers in their custody in relation for the profane act that involved knocking over gravestones and vandalised with Nazi slogans and swastikas.
Local news revealed that over 400 Jewish gravestones were desecrated with Nazi writings using red paint.
The office of local Prosecutor Philippe Vannnier said via phone interview that the five teenagers are all males aged 15-17.
They were taken into custody by authorities after one of them turned himself in to a nearby police station.
After hearing about the incident in the Jewish cemetery in the eastern town of Sarre-Union, President Francois Hollande said that what the teenagers did was "odious and barbaric."
On the other hand, Prime Minister Manuel Valls labeled the incident as "vile, anti-Semitic" and "an insult to memory," Daily Mail has learned.
"This was an odious act against religious freedom and tolerance. France will not tolerate this latest attack which harms the values all French people share," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. "Everything will be done to establish the identity of the perpetrators' of the Sarre-Union attack 'so as to bring them to justice."
The Jewish graves desecrated with Nazi slogans incident took place just after four Jewish people were murdered by a Kalashnikov wielding terrorist last month.
Most of the Jews buried in the aforesaid cemetery were killed during the Holocaust when approximately 76,000 French Jews died in Nazi concentration camps, according to Express UK.
The identities of the embattled teenagers were not immediately available.
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