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Swastikas, slogans painted on WWI graves of French Muslims

ABLAIN SAINT NAZAIRE, France -- The gravestones of 52 French Muslim soldiers have been daubed with Nazi slogans in a military cemetery in northeastern France, officials said on Thursday.

Swastikas and slogans such as "Heil Hitler" were also painted on Wednesday night on the ossuary of the Notre Dame de Lorette cemetery, the biggest military graveyard in the country, said the local prosecutor.

A hundred gendarmes were scouring the site on Thursday for clues about the perpetrators.

The cemetery, near the town of Arras, contains the graves of many thousands of soldiers who died in World War I.
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