A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop in southern France - the third anti-Semitic attack over the weekend - drawing vows for increased security at Jewish sites and appeals for religious tolerance. No one was hurt in the attack Saturday evening in the town of l'Union, near Toulouse.
Early Saturday morning, vandals attacked a synagogue in Lyon, in southeastern France, causing damage to the building but no injuries. In the attack against the synagogue, hooded vandals crashed two cars through its main gate and then rammed one of the vehicles into the temple's prayer hall and set it on fire.
Le Journal du Dimanche, a Sunday newspaper, reported that a Jewish couple in their 20s suffered injuries from an attack Saturday afternoon in the town of Villeurbanne, in the Rhone region. The woman, identified as pregnant, was reportedly hospitalized overnight.
Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, speaking before the shooting, said he was "revolted" by the attack on the synagogue, which was "apparently organized and premeditated." Jospin called for "respect of religions," speaking to French television station LCI during a weekend campaign trip to Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France.
Is revolted what you become after you have been revolting for too long?
Posted by Ken H 4/1/2002 7:03:54 PM |