Well, I can't blame people who jumped the gun on this matter. It was only a couple of months ago that WWI graves of British soldiers were defaced in France. You can read about it
here.
Luckily this was a sad mistake, but given that a couple months earlier the French had written "Dig up your rubbish, it is contaminating our soil" on the graves of fallen British soldiers in France, it was easy to jump to the wrong conclusion.