The beautiful memorial of the Armenian Genocide Villeurbanne which had been inaugurated by Mayor Jean-Paul Bret April 23, 2005, on the eve of the commemoration of its 90th anniversary was desecrated on July 3. 
Vandals have attacked the particular entry made of steel letters that were embedded in the stone. Some of these letters were torn and twisted others to deface the phrase “recognize the Armenian genocide.”
This outrage is another attack on the memory of the million and a half Armenians were exterminated in 1915 under the direction of Young Turk government. It is part of the long list of sacrilegious actions against the victims of this crime which is still not recognized by the Turkish state and continues to do its part the subject of a militant denial. This new affront to the dignity of the dead rests the issue of criminalization of denial of the Armenian genocide and the adoption of a new law on this subject, as there are committed repeatedly authorities.