A man who stopped to light a cigarette from the fire at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in France has been arrested. "The man who desecrated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by lighting a cigarette with the memorial flame was arrested in Paris for violating a burial site, tomb, urn, or monument erected in memory of the dead," he wrote on social media. The tomb, under the giant arch at the top of the iconic Champs-Élysées avenue, contains the remains of a soldier killed in World War I, laid there as a tribute to France's dead.
Author: ABC News
Published at: 2025-08-05 21:59:58
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