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Couples convicted for making adult film at French war memorial

Two couples have been fined by a French court after making an adult film at the Vimy Ridge memorial to the First World War.

The men were found guilty of insulting the memory of fallen soldiers, while the women, who stripped off at the memorial, were convicted of exhibitionism.

The memorial pays tribute to hundreds of Canadian soldiers who fell at the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge, one of the bloodiest battles in the Somme.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)