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Article: Camera guard on war graves.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 5, 2009
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Byline: From Peter Allen in Paris
HI-TECH security devices including thermal imaging cameras have been installed around war graves in northern France to try to stop them being desecrated by neo-Nazis.
Nicolas Sarkozy's government believes the last resting place of thousands of British and Allied heroes need 24-hour protection.
Veterans Minister Hubert Falco was yesterday at Notre Dame de Lorette, the largest war cemetery in France, as technicians installed a dozen cameras.
He said: 'They are designed to alert us to intruders getting at the graves during the night. In recent months hundreds of gravestones have been damaged - either ...