It was a long, hard struggle, but a French judge has now ruled that the 215 Christian graves that were desecrated by a Muslim man in Castes were “motivated by Christian hatred.”

It was a long, hard struggle, but a French judge has now ruled that the 215 Christian graves that were desecrated by a Muslim man in Castes were “motivated by Christian hatred.”

At the time of the attack, which occurred on April 15th in 2015, authorities refused to call the desecration of 215 Christian graves at the Saint-Roch cemetery an anti-Christian crime.

Three years on, it has now been recognised as a hate crime after a campaign by the General Alliance Against Racism and for the Respect of the French and Christian Identity (Agrif), Le Journal D’ici reports

Agrif, according to their website , are an anti-extremist organisation which claims to fight against discrimination of French and Christian individuals and defines itself firmly as a right-wing organisation.

The attack in 2015 was widely condemned across France with former French President François Hollande calling it an “unworthy act” that “undermined the values of our Republic.”

According to the mayor of Castres Pascal Bugis, the attack occurred while the cemetery guards were on their lunch break and said that “only the symbols were damaged, crosses torn off, and some stelas [gravestones] were broken”, indicating a religious motive for the attack.