MEMORIAL TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS PROFANED IN LYON

Yerkir
18.04.2006 16:45

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – Seven days before the commemorations of the Armenian
Genocide of 1915, the steles of the Armenian Memorial set up in the
town of Lyon (France), which must be inaugurated by President Jacques
Chirac, were profaned with inscriptions of insults and negationists:
“There never was genocide of the Armenians”.

This act of vandalism followed upon the consecutive racist drifts with
the ultra nationalist Turkish demonstration of last 18 March. Armenian
associations and organizations (CCAF – CDCA) call the authorities
of Police force to seek and sanction the persons in charge for these
intolerable attacks to human dignity.