JTA - Charges in French cemetery desecration

Two men were indicted for allegedly desecrating a Jewish cemetery in eastern France in April 2004. They were charged last Friday with desecration, damaging a cemetery, abusing public services, praising war crimes and incitement to racism, District Attorney Pascal Schultz told the AFP news service. The two men, aged 36 and 27, scrawled anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi phrases and symbols on 127 graves in Herrlisheim. One of the men allegedly has connections to the neo-Nazi movement.