People and official authorities expressed anger over the desecration of graves in the wilaya or province of Batna (eastern Algeria). Grafittis insulting Islam and praising Israel were written on some graves. A guard of the cemetery said he was in anger over these grafittis especially that some of his relatives’ graves were desecrated as well. The Star of David was written on one of them, he said. A policeman was very furious when he saw a grafitti written on another grave saying: “viva Israel, Islam is the real and biggest Satan”.
“The biggest Satan is the one who desecrates graves and describes dead using racist grafittis ”, said the policeman.
It was written on another grave in the same cemetery in Batna: “Christ is happiness”. All those grafittis were written in good French. “The solution is to have more guards on the spot because there are not enough of them in the cemetery”, said a guard.
Even politics were involved in this heinous affair. Other offending grafittis were written such as: “Arab nations are the dirt of earth” and “viva dear France and FLN (political party) are scum”. An investigation is underway to find out those behind these horrendous desecrations.