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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

France ‘investigating whether Russia behind’ graffiti on Holocaust memorial

Red hand graffiti is seen on the wall outside the Holocaust memorial in Pari, on May 14, 2024, after the monument was vandalised overnight.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, immediately reported the red-hand graffiti to prosecutors as a possible antisemitic act. Photograph: Antonin Utz/AFP/Getty Images

France is investigating whether graffiti painted on the wall of Paris’s Holocaust memorial last week was a destabilisation operation coordinated from Russia, French media have reported.

On the morning of 14 May, about 20 spray-painted red hand symbols were discovered on one of the memorial’s exterior walls, which is dedicated to honouring individuals who saved Jews from persecution during the Nazi occupation of France.

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