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Leif Le Mahieu – Daily Wire June 30, 2023

A memorial in France honoring those who were deported from the country by the Nazis during World War II was reportedly vandalized this week by rioters protesting the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy on Tuesday.

The vandalism targeted the Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, a monument erected in 1962 in a Paris suburb remembering the roughly 200,000 people who were deported from France to Nazi Germany during World War II. This would include Jews who would become victims of the Holocaust, Gypsies, and French workers who were sent to labor camps.

“It is truly horrifying to witness the Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation in Nanterre being vandalized,” the European Jewish Congress said in a statement. “This shameful act of disrespect for the memory of the victims of the Holocaust must be unequivocally condemned and those responsible held accountable.”

Ariel Goldmann, president of the United Jewish Social Fund, also called out the vandalism, according to the Jewish Chronicle. “It is an absolute outrage and a disgrace. Nothing is respected,” he said.

The deportation memorial has drawn some criticism in the past for not explicitly referencing the Jewish victims of the Nazi deportations.

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