THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 24, 1982 29
Terrorists Mar Rosh Hashana in European Attacks on Jews
PARIS (JTA) — Jews in
west European countries
prayed this year behind
police cordons with army
snipers ready to protect
them after two terrorist at-
tacks, one in Paris and the
other in Brussels, marred
Rosh Hashana observances.
In Paris, close to 50
people, including 45-non-
Jewish school students,
were wounded by an explo-
sion which blew up the car
of an Israeli diplomat on
New Year's eve.
In Brussels, a man fired a
submachinegun at wor-
shippers leaving the city's
main synagogue on the first
day of Rosh Hashana,
Saturday morning, seri-
ously wounding four. In
both cities several of the in-
jured are still in critical
condition.
In most West European
capitals, police took
stringent security pre-
cautions. Police barriers
were set up near places of
worship and people
entering the areas were
searched by police offi-
cers and local community
volunteers for possible
hidden weapons and exp-
losives. In spite of the
Paris and Brussels at-
tacks, synagogues were
crowded in most large
European cities.
At Paris' liberal syna-
gogue on the Rue Copernic,
where four people were kil-
led by a bomb blast on
Simhat Torah in 1980, hun-
dreds of families filled the
hall and hundreds more
stood outside for lack of
space. The same happened
in most synagogues in
Paris, Brussels, Zurich,
Rome and Amsterdam.
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In several West European
synagogues special services
were held for the wounded.
In France, Chief Rabbi Rene
Sirat said Jews will fast in
solidarity with the wounded
and to protest the Pope's
meeting with PLO chief
Yasir Arafat at the Vatican
last week.
The Paris explosion oc-
curred at 3:30 p.m. last Fri-
day as an official of the pur-
chasing mission of the Is-
raeli Defense Ministry,
Amos Man-El, 61, turned
the ignition key in his car. A
powerful blast shook the
entire street in a central
residential area, shattering
windows for several
hundred yards and wound-
ing people a block away.
The two other passengers in
the Israeli diplomat's car,
his Venezuelan cousin, Zol-
tan Mandel, and his wife,
Veronica, were seriously in-
jured.
Flying glass wounded
45 children in a nearby
school and several
passers-by. The purchas-
ing mission had closed
earlier than usual to
allow 100 staff members
to return home to pre-
pare for Rosh Hashana.
An Israeli embassy
spokesman said that had
the staff left as usual, do-
zens would have been
wounded.
Angry crowds rapidly
gathered at the site and
people started demonstrat-
ing, calling for stricter
police protection and for the
closure of the PLO bureau
in Paris.
Israel's Ambassador Meir
Rosenne blamed the attack
on the Palestine Liberation
Organization, quoting one
of its leaders, Farouk Kad-
dumi, as having said that
the Palestinians "will make
life unlivable for any Israeli
wherever he is." Rosenne
later met with Prime Minis-
ter Pierre Mauroy to protest
the attack.
Israeli sources said
Rosenne hinted that
France's Mideast policy has
.been conducive to anti-
Israeli and anti-Jewish
murderous attacks.
President Francois
Mitterrand chaired a
special anti-terror crisis
group at the Elysee
Palace and later gov-
ernment spokesmen said
that security precautions
will be further tightened.
Hours after the attack, all
Jewish community centers,
synagogues and schools as
well as many office build-
ings were cordoned off by
police forces, with
sharpshooters at the ready.
In phone calls to news
agencies in Paris, a group
calling itself "The 'Lebanese
Armed Revolutionary Fac-
tion" claimed responsibility
for the attack. Police said,
however, that the calls were
not being taken seriously
since the calls occurred long
after the news was broad-
cast. The underground
group had claimed in the
past that it was responsible
for the assassination at-
tempt against U.S. embassy
economic counselor
Roderick Grant.
Police also detained 14
people suspected of links
with the extreme leftwing
"Action Directe" organiza-
tion but later ssid that none
of those arrested seemed to
have been involved in the
blast.
The following day,
Saturday morning, a
man, described by
eyewitnesses as a pedest-
rian, opened fire with a
submachinegun on a
group of worshippers
entering Brussels Re-
gency Synagogue in the
center of the city, wound-
ing four. A plain clothes
detective on guard out-
side the synagogue re-
turned fire and uni-
formed officers took up a
chase but the man fled
down the winding alleys
and got lost in the Satur-
day morning crowd of
shoppers and tourists.
The Israeli Embassy in
Brussels issued a statement
blaming the attack on what
it said were biased anti-
Israeli press reports on the
Beirut fighting.
Several Belgian minis-
ters came to the site and
Foreign Minister Leo Tin-•
denmans told the angry
crowds that the governmen
will do everything it can to
ensure the Jewish commu-
nity's protection.
The Jewish demon-
strators were not appeased.
Many called for the gov-
ernment's resignation or at
least a change in its Mideast
policy. Others assaulted
Belgian and foreign televi-
sion crews and reporters.
Several terrorist attacks
have taken place in recent
years in Belgium. In July
1980, a 15-year-old boy was
killed and 14 people injured
in Antwerp when terrorists
attacked a small group of
children waiting for a bus.
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