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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 10, 1900 5

Paris Demonstrations Protest Anti-Semitic Terior Wave in France

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ial Palace, hundreds of
demonstrators waved Is-
raeli flags throughout the
day and late into the
night.
Hours before he was vil-
ified by leftist deputies on
Wednesday, President Val-
ery Giscard d'Estaing ap-
peared on live television for
five minutes to condemn the
bombing. It was his first
tement on the issue.
o days after the bomb
'- plosion, Rue Copernic,
iitrw
where the Reform Rue
Copernic temple is located,
looks as if it has been the
target of an air raid attack.
Burned out cars litter the
streets; buildings in a

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are companies of riot police — a
area
100-meter
wrecked, their windows total of some 600 police —
shattered and their walls will henceforth be assigned
blackened by smoke. Local to special security measures
residents say that a day for the Jewish community.
after the bombing they But the Jewish community
could still smell the stench and many government op-
of smoke and burned bodies. position leaders feel, how-
The Reform synagogue, ever, that these measures
located in one of Paris' most are too little and too late.
Emotions were so high
fashionable residential
areas, was filled with wor- on Saturday, the day
shippers who came to attend after the bombing, that
both the Sabbath services Jewish leaders issued an
and Simhat Torah services. appeal for calm.
Outrage was increased on
At 6:20 p.m. the worship-
pers suddenly heard a blast. Sunday when the police de-
The synagogue's front partment's trade union sec-
gate was blown off, the ceil- retary held an impromptu
ings caved in and the win- press conference and dis-
dows were shattered. Only a closed that one-fifth of the
handful of people inside members of the outlawed
were injured. Most suffered neo-Nazi organization, the
slight wounds from glass Federation of European
Nationalist Action, are
shards and wood splinters.
The government has policemen. He charged that
promised Chief Rabbi Jacob "it is they who inform their
Kaplan and Baron Alain de neo-Naxi colleagues of all
Rothschild, president of the we do. They use police in-
Representative Council of telligence operations
Jewish Organizations In against the governmetn and
France (CRIF) that 200 the police."
police cars and three full
According to Interior
Ministry officials, this could
be the likeliest explanation
AGENCY
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of police • failure to ap-
prehend the neo-Nazis who
have carried out a dozen at-
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tacks on Jewish institutions
over the. last two years, in-
cluding the machinegun-
ning last week of five
Jewish-owned buildings
and last year's bomb attack
on a Jewish students hostel,
Centre Medicis, which seri-
ously injured 26 people.
Hundreds of detectives
are going through the files
of rightwing organizations.
Hundreds of people have
been arrested since Friday
night and have had their
homes searched.
An elderly man, who
police believe was mistaken
for a right-wing editor, was
burned with acid Wednes-
day. Police claim it was
"Jewish retaliation" for the
bombing.
Expressions of outrage
and sympathy have been
pouring in to the French
Jewish community from
all over the world. The Is-
raeli Cabinet issued a
sharp statement on Sun-
day declaring "the right
and duty of Jews to de-
fend themselves, their
lives and their honor."
Israeli Foreign Minister
Yitzhak Shamir said the
bombing was part of an at-
tack "organized against the

French Protest Campaign

The Lansing Jewish Ac-
tivists group is organizing a
state-wide protest against
the recent wave of anti-
Jewish terrorism in France.
According to group
spokesman Janet Abram-
son, letters should be sent to
the U.S. ambassador at the
United Nations, asking him
to protest the attacks, to the
president of France,and to
the French embassy in
Washington.
Letters can be sent to:
Ambassador Donald
McHenry, U.S. Delega-
tion, United Nations, 799
UN Plaza, New York, N.Y.
10017.
President Valery Gis-
card d'Estaing, Elysee
Palace, Paris, France.
French Embassy, 2535
Belmont Rd. N.W, Wash-
ington, D.C. 20008.
A "Letter to the People
and Government of France"
suggested by the Lansing
Jewish Activists reads:
"We, the undersigned
people of the United States,
ask the French government
to protect the lives of the
Jewish citizens of France.
After other recent attacks
on Jews, on Friday, Oct. 3,
1980, a bomb killed and in-
jured many people at the
Union Liberal Israelite
Synagogue in Paris.
"Do not let these events
continue.
"This violence, left un-
checked, could lead to
another infamous "Kris-
tallnacht" (Nov. 9-10,
1938) which began when
a German diplomat in

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Paris was assassinated.
"Let France remember
Emile Zola who, during the
Dreyfus Affair, appealed to
the great French tradition
of Liberty, Equality and
Fraternity for all citizens in
the struggle to denounce
and destroy anti-Semitism
forever."

Jewish people and its state,
the state of Israel." He also
charged that recent anti-
Semitic attacks in France
and elsewhere in Europe
were encouraged by Euro-
pean overtures to the Pire
tine Liberation Organiza-
tion.
American Jewish organ-
izations and U.S. politicians
have joined in the outpour-
ings of sympathy and out-
rage. Pope John Paul II de-
plored the bombing as an
act "unworthy of man and
even more of Christians."
In West Berlin, the
chairman of the Jewish
community, Heinz
Galinski, called on the West
European nations to take
coordinated action against
the spread of neo-Nazi vio-
lence.
A fascist and racist
demonstration held in
Antwerp on Saturday
caused deep shock in Bel-

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gium.
The demonstration was
organized by the
extreme-right "Vlaamse
Militanten Orde" (VMO)
group in protest again _ st a
proposal in favor of giv-
ing voting rights to im-
migrant workers in Bel-
gium.
Some 500 fascists wear-
ing black uniforms or com-
mando outfits, armed with
batons, chains, nailed belts
and shouting racist slogans
marched in the city. Other
fascist and neo-Nazi groups
like the "Vere Di," the
"Voorpost," the "Vlaamse
Blok" and the "Wiking
Jugend" took part in the
demonstration.
Bert Erikson, the leader
of the VMO, called for the
exulsion of immigrant
workers and claimed that
no concessions would be
made even if "blood had to
be shed."

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