Nov 29, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
France charged two people with justifying a crime against humanity over
Nazi swastikas that were spray-painted in northwestern Paris, a judicial source
said on Wednesday.
The two were part of a group of 13 people who were detained on Saturday. The suspects, who are in their 20s and early 30s, have been described as a mixture of ultra-right activists and hooligans.
France is
on alert after the killing of a teenager this month inflamed political tensions
in the country, with the hard-right describing the assault as
"anti-white racism."
Seven of
the suspects have been known to the authorities as ultra-right activists, and
another three have already been involved in "similar acts" in the
past, the public prosecutor's office said.
They are
suspected of having spray-painted Nazi swastikas on the ground in the French
capital's 17th district.
France24
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