A plaque on a Paris school building honoring the memory of Jews deported to Auschwitz was destroyed. Former members of the French Resistance arriving for a ceremony at the Japy Gymnasium in the capital’s 11th District on Monday discovered the plaque broken on the ground outside the school building.
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