UPDATED: ANOTHER JEWISH CEMETERY VANDALIZED IN FRANCE

Vandals attack Jewish cemetery in eastern France
Vandals scrawled swastikas and "SS" initials on Jewish tombs in eastern France, an anti-Semitic attack the prime minister condemned Saturday as "odious." The inscriptions were discovered Saturday afternoon on 88 tombs in the Jewish cemetery in Brumath in the Bas-Rhin region, authorities said.

Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said orders had been issued to find and arrest "the authors of these scandalous acts." "The odious character of these acts should provoke a reaction of collective indignation," he said in a statement. The government says the number of anti-Semitic acts appears to have rebounded this year, with 166 counted in the first nine months of 2004, compared to 127 for all of last year. In 2002, the Interior Ministry counted 195 such acts.

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