No organized element appears to be behind a recent series of anti-Semitic attacks in France, police said Tuesday, as 10 of 39 people questioned in the incidents remain in custody. Alain Tourre, a police spokesman at the Interior Ministry, said many of the suspects have police records for other crimes, including vandalism, theft, violence or selling drugs. They do not appear to be "organized or politicized, nor are they members of anti-Zionist groups," he said Tuesday. Some are minors. The attacks have coincided with an escalation in Middle East violence and have heightened tension between French Jews and the country's large Muslim community. Synagogues, schools and cemeteries around the country have been targeted, often with firebombs. In the most serious case, a Marseille synagogue was burned to the ground on March 31.
We guessed they were the usual layabout vandals and thugs. That's where we get our gunnies, isn't it? But if they keep digging, which I doubt they'll do, they'll find the local mullahs ranting and spraying the first four rows with spittle and then trying to look innocent and concerned when Abdul and Mahmood go out to hunt down a few Jews. |