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8 Graves of Muslim WWII Soldiers Desecrated in France

Local officials say eight graves of Muslim soldiers who died for France in World War II have been desecrated in a village cemetery.

Maurice Duhamel, mayor of Montjoie-Saint-Martin, says he is filing suit after Nazi symbols were discovered Wednesday on the eight graves of Muslim soldiers in France's 2nd Armored Division.

Last week, the French Council for the Muslim Faith complained that those responsible for the desecration in December of some 500 Muslim soldiers' graves in Arras, in the north, have yet to be identified. It was the third time Muslim graves there had been desecrated.

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