Swastikas were painted on tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France. On Wednesday morning, a person visiting the cemetery near Strasbourg, which dates from the 17th century, found 32 gravestones desecrated, mostly with red or blue swastikas, French Jewish official Pierre Levy told JTA.
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