France: Attacks on Jewish sites
Source:
BBC Over the weekend, the doors of a synagogue in Strasbourg were destroyed in a fire, a synagogue in Marseille was burnt to the ground and in Lyon another was rammed by two cars and subsequently set alight.
The BBC reports that French officials believe that the escalating conflict in the Middle East has stirred hostility towards the country's 700,000-strong Jewish community, which has demanded that the authorities start providing better protection for themselves and their property.
Website Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1906593.stm
Submitted on Tue, 04/02/2002 - 00:00
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