Second Autopsy, Reveals Beating May Be Rejison for French Boy's Death

t"ARLi(i'lA)—A second autopsy theoutco
' Me of the inquiry. In a
perforfned on Roger. Allouche, a statement it called the boy's death
14-year-old Jewish schoolboy who "racial murder" and accused the
died in Toulouse last week, haS St. Nicholat School of being "anti-
confirmed his parents' suspicions Semitic:" The local Jewish corn
that the youngster's death was not =laity; where tensions are report-
due to natural causes, it was edly running high, has called upon
learned here. the-local authorities to "shed all
According to the parents, their postale light" on3the-incidepik-and
son succumbed to injuries inflicted to ascertain its real causes. There
by fellow students at the St. are some 18,000 Jews in this city
Nicholas School, a Jesuit institu- of total population of some 269,000.
tion which-the boy attended.
- The funeral-was Attended by
A-police investigating was open- huge creeds, including school-
ed at the insistence of the parents niates af Um -dead bey, teachers
aftir an initial autopsy report said and usemliers at the Jewish
the boy died of natural causes. The ceennensity_ wbe searched behind
principal of the school had in- the cern" to a cold rain. A
formed the parents that Roger wreath was laid as the grave by
classmates and teachers.
died after a "fainting spell."
The principal of St. Nicholas,
Roger was to have been buried
last Friday: but the burial was Sean Roux, -defended the school
against
charges of anti-Semitism
halted-we police orders and a
second autopsy was perforated. and said be held no anti-Jewish or
racial
feelings.
The patbeingist reportedly said
be found alwasins and bruises
He reminded local organizations
all over lieger's bedy and that and the press that he and his par-
his testicles were bream
ents were responsible for saving
Burial services were held Mon- the lives of countless Jewish
children by biding them in their
day.
home during the. Nazi occupation
The investigation has been of France in World War 1L But
joined by the Conseil litepresentatif
des Israelites de France (CRlF),
Which dispatched a special
torney 'frour'rParirttei -observe the
police investigation mid by the In-
ternational League Against Anti-
Semitism (LICA),,which sent twa
rePresentatives to Toulouse to
conduct a separate investigation.
LICA declared it was deeply dis-
turbed by the case.
The MRAP, a left-wing organi-
zation in Paris, is not waiting for

Roux conceded that an anti-Semitic
incident occurred last year and it
was that incident that aroused the
suspicions of Roger Allouche's
parents when the principal told
them their son had died of natural
causes after a fainting spell.
The incident involved Roger's
Ffigtich teacher who allegedly
called the boy a "dirty Jew" dur-
ing an argument. The boy pro-
tested and was supported by his
entire class and by the faculty.
"The teacher apologized in public
and was reprimanded," Roux said.
He stated- that at the time he

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suggested to the boy's father to
consider- changing schools but the
boy himself chose to remain.
Catholic schools, known in
France as "free schools" in con-
trast to schools run by the state,
are highly regarded for scholastic
excellence and for that reason
many Jewish parents send their
children to these schools in pre-
ference- to the available Jewish
schools or the normal state-run
institutions.

ALL Fall & Winter

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