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Stanley Andrews **

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James Kane

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Man Attacks
French Widow

Paris (JTA) — The widow of a
Jewish man whose body was dis-
interred in 1990 by five skin-
heads was attacked and beaten
by an unidentified man.
The incident occurred after she
publicly rejected an apology from
one of the vandals responsible fe
the cemetery desecration.
Magdeleine Germon, 86, was
hospitalized with head injuries
after a young man, posing as a
mail carrier, entered her apart-
ment.
After threatening to kill her,
he beat and attempted to suffo-
cate her before fleeing when
neighbors were alerted by her
screams.
The day before, Ms. Germon
had appeared on television to say
she would not forgive Bertrand
Nouveau, one of four former neo-
Nazis who confessed to removing
the body of her husband, Felix
Germon, from his grave in the
Jewish cemetery in the southern
town of Carpentras in 1990.
From his prison cell, where he
has been held since his arrest
August, Mr. Nouveau expressed
his apologies to Ms. Germon and
to "the entire Jewish population,"
saying that he had been in-
fluenced by the "hateful and
xenophobic stance" of the ex-
treme-right National Front.
It was unclear whether the
attack on Ms. Germon was mo-
tivated by the cemetery dese-
cration or by her televise •
comments.
"I have received threats, and
so has she, by telephone or in the
mail," said Ms. Germon's lawyer,
Jean-Marc Fedida, who added
that the threats had increased
since the skinheads' arrests,
which ended a six-year investi-
gation.
The arrests came after four of
the five neo-Nazi skinheads con-
fessed in August to the May 1990
desecration of the Carpentras
cemetery. The fifth member of
the group was said to have died
in a motorcycle accident.
The four said they had dese-
crated 34 graves and disinterred
Felix Germon's body to pay trib-
ute to Adolf Hitler and to mark
the anniversary of Germany's
surrender, May 8, 1945.
The desecration caused an up-
roar in France and sent 100,000
people, including then-president
Francois Mitterrand, to voice
their outrage in a mass demon-
stration.

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