FRENCH JEWS TAKE TO STREETS TO PROTEST KIDNAP AND SAVAGE MURDER OF JEWISH MAN

French take to the streets to rally against a brutal murder
By Brett Kline

PARIS, Feb. 27 (JTA) — Sandrine Berda attended this week’s rally in Paris against hate to make a statement. “It seems that so much is going on now to try to force us to leave Paris,” said Berda, who runs a catering business. “I am here to show there are lots of Jews here and if we leave, Paris will become a pitiful city.”

Berda was among tens of thousands of Parisians, mostly Jews, who rallied on Sunday after a young French Jew was brutally murdered in what officials have called a hate crime.
Police estimated the number of marchers at 33,000, although others put the number much higher.

The question of whether France is still safe for its estimated 600,000 Jews was a major topic of discussion among the demonstrators.