The graffiti appeared in the cemetery in Quatzenheim, near Strasbourg, overnight on Tuesday – hours before planned nationwide marches against a rise in antisemitic attacks.

French president Emmanuel Macron visited the graveyard on Tuesday, walking through a gate with a swastika sprayed onto it.

He paid his respects at one of the desecrated graves and told Jewish community members and local leaders: “It’s important for me to be here with you today.”

There were more than 500 antisemitic attacks across France in 2018, a 74% increase from 2017, figures released last week revealed.

After a series of antisemitic attacks last January Mr Macron urged the whole of France to “rise up” against “disgusting attacks” on the country’s Jewish community.

Incidents in recent days included yellow vest protesters on Saturday abusing Alain Finkielkraut, a well-known Jewish writer and son of a Holocaust survivor.

It has grown by about half since the Second World War, but antisemitic attacks remain common.

Earlier this month a bagel shop was sprayed with the word Juden – German for Jews – in yellow letters.

A Jewish cemetery in Herrlisheim, north of Strasbourg, also had many of its gravestones daubed with swastikas in December last year.

In 2015 four Jews in a Kosher supermarket in Paris were among 17 killed across the city by Islamist militants.

“These acts are disgusting,” Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told parliament last week.

“We need to educate and remind people about our history, to talk about the horrors that hide behind those criminal acts.

“We also need to punish (more) and we know that we can’t be hesitant on that.”

Mr Macron will host a dinner on Wednesday with the head of Crif, the overarching body that represents the Jewish community in France.

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Gwamnatin Amurka ta tallafa wa jamhuriyar Nijar da magungunan zazzabin cizon sauro wato malaria na milyoyin CFA.

Tallafin dai ya hada da magungunan rigakafin zazzabin cizon sauro dama na magance cutar da zarar an kamu da ita.

Kazalika daga cikin tallafin da Amurkan ta ba wa Nijar, akwai gidajen sauro.

Amurka dai ta bayar da wannan taimako ne ga Nijar da zimmar rage yaduwar cutar ta malaria da akshi 50 cikin 100.

Wannan tallafi na Amurkan, na daga cikin wani tsari ne na kasar wajen tallafa wa kasashe masu tasowa.

Cutar zazzabin cizon sauro na daga cikin cututtukan da ke saurin kisan kananan yara da ma mata masu juna biyu a kasar.

Gwamnatin Nijar ta kasa yakin da take a kan yaduwar cutar zuwa gida uku da suka hada da neman tallafi da wadatar da al’ummar kasar da maganin rigakafin cutar da kuma tsaftace unguwanni.

Kasashen Afrika ne suka fi fama da cutar zazzabin cizon sauro, kuma yawancin wadanda ke mutuwa yara ne.

Up to 70 may have been trapped in the mine and the search near Kadoma continues, the government said. It has declared a national disaster.

Henrietta Rushwaya, who leads the country’s small-scale miners’ association, said 23 of the bodies had been identified.

According to the government’s deputy chief mining engineer, “it doesn’t seem likely” that there are any other survivors.

Friends and relatives have broken police lines in an attempt to identify their loved ones.

According to the Zimbabwean government, $200,000 (£155,000) is needed to complete the rescue effort – with a spokesman urging “well-wishers” to donate body bags, masks and gloves.