E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.3 page 53 On 6 July 1994, the bookshop owner, who was a first offender, was sentenced by the Bordeaux correctional court to one year's imprisonment, six months as a suspended sentence, a 20,000 franc fine and the confiscation of the articles seized. He appealed the sentence (No. 94-640 A4). (6) Violent racist or allegedly racist offences and desecration of graves On 16 March 1994, 30 graves were desecrated in the cemetery of Saint-Laurent de Brevedent (76). Crosses, name plates and flower vases were broken. The perpetrators also drew a Nazi swastika on the ground. Following an inquiry, three young men were arrested; they admitted the facts and were placed under a detention warrant on 9 August 1994 by the examining judge of Le Havre. One had already been sentenced to one year's imprisonment for the same acts on 23 December 1991 by the correctional court of Le Havre (No. 94-1104 A13). On 5 February 1994 at 5.05 a.m. in Ajaccio, a Moroccan refuse collector, married with children, was fatally injured by shots from a vehicle as he was collecting household refuse. Shortly before, two employees of the refuse collection service, also North Africans, had been similarly attacked, but fortunately were not physically injured. Judicial examination proceedings were immediately instituted. On 14 January 1994, four youths were placed under investigation on charges of murder and attempted murder and put under a criminal detention warrant (No. 94-282 B21). In the night of 17 to 18 September 1994, individuals broke into the Nantes mosque and lit a fire which caused considerable property damage. Judicial examination proceedings were instituted for arson (No. 94-1112 A13). -----