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| Vandals Attack Jewish Cemetery in France |
| 2004-10-31 |
| Vandals scrawled swastikas and "SS" initials on 88 Jewish tombs in eastern France, an anti-Semitic attack that President Jacques Chirac on Saturday called "intolerable." The inscriptions were discovered Saturday in the Jewish cemetery in Brumath, 10 miles north of Strasbourg near the French-German border, authorities said. Chirac condemned "this intolerable act with the greatest firmness," his office said in a statement. The French leader also asked that the government "take all the measures necessary without delay to find, arrest and bring to justice the authors of this odious act." The government says the number of anti-Semitic acts appears to have rebounded this year, with 166 counted in the first nine months of 2004, compared with 127 for all of last year. In 2002, the Interior Ministry counted 195 such acts. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-31 8:11:45 PM |
| #8 While it's down the drain, it's clogged the J bend. We'll keep hearing about it (and smelling) until we use the snake. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-31 3:02:34 PM |
| #7 Correction to my earlier comment: It is the third time in the last six months that Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated in the Alsace region. (Not the one and same cemetery as I mistakenly reported.) Mrs D, when something "has gone" down the drain I sure hope not to keep hearing about it in the news... |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-10-31 2:30:18 PM |
| #6 One little wee sacking of Rome in 455 and now everything gets blamed on the Vandals. Its not like they were anywhere near the scene of the crime, but spend a two week frat party in the Eternal City and everyone blames you for every low ass punk depredation that happens in their neighborhood. |
| Posted by: Don 2004-10-31 9:24:52 AM |
| #5 That inimical country is going down the drain. +5 Good vocabulary utilization+5 -10 Incorrect tense. Should be has gone, not is going. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-31 8:50:11 AM |
| #4 That particular cemetery has been attacked at least three times in the last 6 months. The French police is already failing to deal with their millions of Moslems. That inimical country is going down the drain. Might take 50 years. Might take 10. We haven't seen the end of their perfidy yet. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-10-31 8:47:46 AM |
| #3 Mr. political stair climber, Dominique is brilliant in the art of appeasement, but he is seeking a higher position the Franco-German run European 'Superstate', when the time is appropriate. His future ambition is that of France' 21st century version of Pierre Laval, a fellow Socialist & got also got along fabulously with the Germans. The Nazi's goal is indentical to Iran's despotic mullahs. Why is it tht de Villepin seems to be drawn to those are determined to complete the Shoah.  |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-31 1:28:54 AM |
| #2 Clearly, it has not yet occurred to the self-acknowledged brilliant thinker Interior Minister Dominique de Villepain to post guards at Jewish cemetaries, or at least install monitored security cameras, so that the perpetrators might be caught. One begins to get the idea that the French government doesn't find antisemitic acts unacceptable. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-31 1:23:58 AM |
| #1 It sounds as though the Islamists & neo-Vichys are trying to make Arafat feel right at home. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-31 1:11:30 AM |