Around 60 graves were daubed with swastikas and Nazi symbols at a Jewish cemetery in the French city of Lyon. Lyon’s chief rabbi, Richard Wertenschlag, said the tombs were sprayed Monday with a variety of insignia including inverted swastikas and references to Hitler.
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