Jul 28 2008
Porn film made at First World War memorial
Pornography has become the latest threat to graves and memorials on the First World War battlefields of northern France.
By Peter Allen in Paris
Last Updated: 6:19PM BST 28 Jul 2008
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial took eleven years to build and was unveiled by King Edward VIII in front of 50,000 veterans and their families in 1936 Photo: IAN JONES
While common acts of desecration have in the past included vandalism and graffiti, indecent photographs and videos are increasingly being shot around the magnificent structures built during the post-war years to remember the fallen.
The latest incident saw a French couple given a four-month suspended prison sentence for making a pornographic video at the Vimy Ridge memorial near Arras.
After being found guilty of exhibitionism, they were fined £400 each and ordered to pay a symbolic one euro (80 pence) in damages to Canada, which lost 60,000 men in the Great War.
Many Canadians perished in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, in April 1917, when four members of the Canadian Corps received Victoria Crosses.
Despite the courageous deeds and sacrifice honoured by the Vimy Memorial, the couple are believed to have stripped naked and performed sex acts beside the soaring stone structure.
They then posted the video on a website, invited people to pay to watch it.
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Great interesting story and nicely written. People will do just anything now days. As long as it pleases them.
I honor the memories of America’s great veterans by using my freedom–the freedom they fought and died to preserve–to make pornographic films on their memorials. Some-possibly-existent-omnipotent-being bless America.
Can’t say I’m shocked.
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