Commemorative plaque commemorating Anne Frank vandalized | CFCA

Lyon – the commemorative plaque affixed to the foot of Anne Frank’s Chestnut tree at the Marc Aron square, in the 3rd arrondissement, was vandalized during the week-end. Thierry Philip, mayor of the 3rd arrondissement and also president of the Maison d’Izieu, and Jean-Dominique Durand, Deputy Mayor of Lyon, responsible for the patrimony and the memory of the veterans, denounced „a particularly abject and manifestly antisemitic act .”