Holocaust memorial to deported Jewish children desecrated

Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, has condemned the desecration of a memorial to the Jewish children who were deported to Nazi death camps from eastern France in 1944.

Mr Macron yesterday called the vandalism a “shameful and cowardly act that won’t remain unpunished”.

A plaque bearing the names of the victims – 44 children and seven adults – was broken and removed from its base in a public garden near Lyon.

Gerard Collomb, the French interior minister, described the attack as “cowardly and despicable”.