Two Romanian citizens were sentenced to prison in France on Tuesday, June 16, for stealing bronze statuettes and desecrating graves in 15 cemeteries in Mayenne and Ille-et-Vilaine, northern France. A 32-year-old man was sentenced to three years in prison, while a co-defendant aged 34 received a two-and-a-half-year sentence. The prosecution had requested five and four years in prison, respectively, along with a ban on entering French territory, according to Le Figaro . The two Romanians, who had been living in France for years, had already been convicted for similar offenses and were to be charged with “group theft, accompanied by damage and desecration of graves,” according to the Laval prosecutor’s office. They were arrested at the beginning of May by gendarmes, who found them using their mobile phones.