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A Moroccan national who lit his cigarette with the flame of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier will be deported from Paris.

Footage circulating on social media shows the 47-year-old climbing over the chain barrier beneath the Arc de Triomphe and lighting a smoke.

The incident happened on Tuesday morning, sending shockwaves across France.

Bruno Retailleau, France’s interior minister, said on X: ‘This unworthy and deplorable act undermines the memory of those who died for France.’

Meanwhile, Patricia Miralles, the French minister for war veterans, said what happened is ‘not a mere misstep, but a desecration’.

She stressed: ‘France will never tolerate the tarnishing of th

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