A French judge investigating the 1990 desecration of a centuries-old Jewish cemetery in the southern town of Carpentras has been withdrawn from the case.
As part of the desecration, a corpse was unearthed and impaled on a beach umbrella.
The removal of the judge came after her six-year probe failed to produce any suspects.
Requests for a new judge were made by the public prosecutor as well as by the lawyer of a relative of the deceased, who criticized the “absence of serious investigations.”
The case has been transferred to the city of Marseille.
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