Activists sprayed cement overnight onto the security shutters of a Parisian restaurant which had last year hosted a meal to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday.
The gang daubed "Here every April 20th they celebrate AdolfHitler's birthday" on the shutters and then called a number ofnewspapers to admit the action in the name of the previously unknown"Autonomous Anti-fascist Brigade".
Last year around 50 people gathered in l'Alsaco restaurant incentral Paris to mark Hitler's birthday. It was notknown whether they intended to repeat the event today.
Meanwhile police in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius today removed ahomemade Nazi flag flown from an empty building to mark thebirthday.
It had the Nazi swastika daubed on white fabric.
Police have removed similar flags marking the anniversary for thepast few years.
AFP