Protestors desecrate monument to so-called Armenian genocide in France

A memorial erected to the so-called Armenian genocide in France's Lyon has been desecrated.

According to Report's France office, the participants of the 'Yellow Vest' protests, which have been staged every Saturday since November 2018, wrote anti-Macron and anarchist slogans on the columns of the monument.

The memorial located next to the Place Bellecour is designed with 36 pieces of white concrete.

No criminal case has been launched into the fact. 

The memorial was erected in 2006 in central Lyon, France.

Armenia claims that the Ottoman Empire allegedly committed genocide of Armenians during World War I.

Turkey's position is that the deaths of Armenians in eastern Anatolia in 1915 took place when some sided with invading Russians and revolted against Ottoman forces. A subsequent relocation of Armenians resulted in numerous casualties.

Turkey objects to the presentation of the incidents as "genocide" but describes the 1915 events as a tragedy for both sides.