Dinant holds the sad record for civilian casualties

The Sack of Dinant is a tragic episode where the Meuse city lost nearly seven hundred of its children. These innocent victims were lynched by the enemy without any trial or proof of guilt being formulated. This slaughter placed the municipality at the head of the martyr cities of the Western Front according to Paul Deschanel, then President of the French Chamber of Deputies on August 23, 1919.