Several hundred graves of Muslim soldiers who died during the First World War, desecrated at a military cemetery in Notre-Dame-de-Loretto "in the north of France, reported Associated Press.
The act of vandalism occurred on the eve of a major Muslim holiday of Kurban Bayram, who this year celebrated on 8 December.
In his statement, French President Nicolas Sarkozy equated what happened to "merzkomu racism against the Muslim community in France" and called the crime "cowardly and heinous act".
Many of those killed in World War I French were Muslims, including those from North Africa.
The military cemetery, located near the town of Arras, was at the scene of one of the most violent and bloodiest battles of the war years 1914-1918.
According to BBC News, in April 2008, at the same cemetery had already been razrisovany swastika and anti-Islamic slogans 148 graves, and in the desecration of 50 graves in 2007, two men were sentenced to a year in prison.
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