French politicians are reacting with anger and dismay after the tomb of France's wartime hero and former President General Charles de Gaulle was vandalised.
French media say police are hunting for two people, one of whom was filmed yesterday by security cameras knocking a cross off the top of tomb in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, the village in eastern France where De Gaulle lived and is buried.
President Emmanuel Macron, in a statement today from his office, asked that the tomb be quickly repaired, adding that De Gaulle's memory is "dear to all French people."
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Prime Minister Edouard Philippe tweeted his "sadness and consternation" and called the vandalism "an act against France."
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen called it "contemptible.
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