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Article: FRENCH SKINHEADS WHO VANDALIZED JEWISH CEMETERY GET 8 MONTHS JAIL
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- January 20, 1993
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Michel Di Paz
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
01-20-1993
FRENCH SKINHEADS WHO VANDALIZED JEWISH CEMETERY GET 8 MONTHS JAIL.
PARIS, Jan. 19 (JTA)--Two French skinheads who desecrated a Jewish cemetery in the southeastern city of Lyon in September have been sentenced to eight months in jail.
The two soccer fans had been drinking heavily in a bar after watching a soccer match and later broke into the city's Jewish cemetery where they broke gravestones and daubed them with anti-Semitic slogans such as "Adolf Hitler is our father" and "Death to the Jews."
The two youths, Gregory Tomitch, 19, and Nicolas Mounier, 20, were arrested a few weeks after the episode during scuffles with police.
During the ...