A Montreal man said he and other residents were shocked and saddened after a war memorial was defaced with graffiti on Remembrance Day.
Berj Merdjanian says he saw the lettering early Saturday morning when he went to work at his photo studio in the city’s Saint-Laurent borough.
What he saw was spray-painted profanity and antiwar messages in red lettering across the white cenotaph, hours before ceremonies were set to begin around the city at 11 a.m.
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