Author: AFP
Publication: www.expatica.com
Date: January 21, 2004
URL: http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=3810
A minibus used to transport children
to a Jewish school in the eastern French city of Strasbourg was set alight
Sunday night, police said Tuesday.
A few hours earlier assailants hurled
stones at the door of a synagogue in the same city.
"Several factors make me think these
are anti-Semitic acts," said Pierre Levy, regional delegate of the Representative
Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF). "What is worrying is that
the incidents tend to happen after demonstrations," he said.
On Saturday around 20,000 Muslims
demonstrated around France against a proposed ban on the Islamic headscarf
in schools. The marches were organised by the Strasbourg-based Party of
French Muslims, whose opponents accuse it of being anti-Semitic.
