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Outrage at women who were filmed stripping off on WWI memorial in France

Two men who filmed their wives stripping naked at a sombre World War I memorial have been sentenced for insulting the memory of heroic soldiers.

The women who exposed themselves for the cameras at the Vimy memorial in northern France were also sentenced for exhibitionism.

The poignant monument pays tribute to hundreds of Canadian soldiers who fell at the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge, one of the bloodiest battles in the Somme.
Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)