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![]() Sickening ... swastika and vile slogans on cenotaph. One read 'Dig up your rubbish. It's fouling our soil.' http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-20031...3150899,00.html By SIMON HUGHES SICK French yobs daubed a swastika and vile anti-war slurs at a cemetery for 11,000 British troops. The showpiece cenotaph at the graveyard in Northern France was smeared in red paint with the words: “Dig up your rubbish. It’s fouling our soil.” Other slogans at the Etaples cemetery near Boulogne included “Death to the Yankees” and “Saddam Hussein will win and spill your blood.” And the vandals wrote “Rosbeefs go home” — the French insult for Brits is roast-beefs. Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush were also branded war criminals. The graffiti was discovered by a shocked gardener and spotted by around 80 visitors. It was cleaned off the same day. Roy Hemmington — spokesman for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission — said: “We are deeply offended. This is the strongest language and most vile graffiti I have witnessed at a war graves cemetery. “The suggestion that the bodies of soldiers who died for France should be dug up is particularly foul.” Most soldiers buried at the cemetery were defending France at the Somme and Ypres during World War I. Another 122 are troops who died fighting the Nazis in World War II. Among the dead are a winner of the Victoria Cross, 217 holders of the Military Medal and 69 holders of the Military Cross. A number had been awarded France’s top military decoration, the Legion d’Honneur. Roy added: “Almost every British regiment has war dead here. This insults just about the entire British Army.” Anti-British feeling has been whipped up in France since President Jacques Chirac refused to let the UN back action against Iraq. Last night Jim Kelleher, chief clerk to the Royal Fusiliers Association, said: “No sane person would do this. It is a disgrace. I have family buried in France and if I could get my hands on whoever did this I’d bury them too.” Jeremy Lillies, of the Royal British Legion, added: “It is distressing.” The Sun’s Military Adviser Major-General Perkins said: “It is despicable.” Appalled local MP Jacques Lang said: “It is an attack on the memory of the British and American soldiers who contributed to the liberation of our soil.” Police captain Thibault Martin added: “It is sick and cowardly.” The shocking news comes as a new poll reveals that a third of the French want SADDAM to win the war. A massive 78 per cent of 1,000 people in the poll by French newspaper Le Monde disapproved of the Allied action. But 16 per cent “really wish for” a Coalition victory — while 37 per cent said they would prefer one. |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59...-631671,00.html
One in three French backs Saddam By Charles Bremner and Alan Hamilton ILL-FEELING between Britain and France over the invasion of Iraq has plumbed new depths with the desecration of that most sacred of memorials, a war cemetery. The defilement of Commonwealth war graves in northern France coincided with a poll for The Times which found that 54 per cent of Britons no longer regarded France as a close ally because of its opposition to the war. Relations will be further rent by a second poll, in Le Monde, showing that only a third of the French felt that they were on the same side as the Americans and British, and that another third desired outright Iraqi victory over “les anglo-saxons”. Eleven thousand Allied soldiers lie buried in well-tended peace at Etaples, on the Channel coast near Le Touquet, victims of the struggle by Anglo-Saxons to liberate the French from the German invaders during the First World War. Last week the obelisk raised in their memory was defiled by red-painted insults such as “Rosbeefs go home”; “May Saddam prevail and spill your blood”; and, in a reference to the long-dead casualties beneath the manicured turf, “They are soiling our land”. Local gendarmerie have launched an inquiry, but have so far found no clues. They say there had been no significant demonstrations against the war in that area of France. The graffiti have been scrubbed off, but the incident has provoked outrage among British politicians, war graves staff and the few remaining relatives of those buried at Etaples. French politicians have joined the condemnation. Bruce George, Labour chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said: “Remembering what sacrifice these men made for the liberation of France, I cannot believe any mature, sane person would be so stupid as that.” David Uffold, 63, a Shropshire farmer, is the only surviving relative of Rifleman Frederick Uffold of the London Regiment, who is buried at Etaples. “I find it sickening that anyone would vandalise the cemetery,” he said. “It is the last place they should be protesting about Iraq. These fellows were drafted in to fight for France. I can’t see any connection between the men buried at Etaples and the war in Iraq.” Peter Francis, of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, said he was disgusted that a place remembering those who died defending freedom in world wars long ago should be dragged into a current political debate. French politicians did their best to portray the desecration as an isolated act, but it nonetheless underlined anti-American and anti-British emotions running through France over what is seen there as a bungled invasion rapidly turning into a humanitarian disaster. President Chirac’s spokesman said: “We are indignant and shocked by the desecration of the graves of soldiers who fought for our liberty.” Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the Prime Minister, said: “The Americans are not the enemy; just because we are against this war, it does not mean that we want the victory of dictatorship over democracy.” |
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Strangely enough, about 1/3 of the population is now Muslim...
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Can we invade France next?
If the Germans can do it twice it'll be a doddle for us! :grrr:
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The French will really reget alot of the words they said about the US, UK and all of European countries which supported the war against Saddam.
While President Chirac might think he did a good move, which will secure his and his party winning the next election, then they will surprise when they start to lose power in the EU, because the other countries do not see them fit, and when the US make the French looks like fools in the UN.
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Frenchies will pay the price for their stupidity...
their economy is in the 8 years slump and will get woirse before it gets better.... fuck the stupid frenchies!
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