French police are investigating after a memorial stone marking the site of a former synagogue destroyed by the Nazis was vandalized in the eastern city of Strasbourg. The prefecture of the Bas-Rhin region said in a statement the heavy memorial stone was discovered moved from its base Saturday morning. "Anti-Semitism undermines the values of the Republic", the prefecture said. The monument commemorates a synagogue built in 1898 that was set on fire and razed to the ground by the Nazis in 1940. The incident comes amid an uptick in anti-Semitic acts in France in recent months.

Source: Fox News March 02, 2019 16:07 UTC