3 MORE ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKS IN PARIS SUBURB OVER WEEKEND

More anti-Semitic attacks in France (JTA)
Three anti-Semitic attacks in a Parisian suburb over the weekend led the country’s interior minister to increase security measures in the community. Nicolas Sarkozy announced at a meeting Sunday night that further police reinforcements would be put in place in Sarcelles. “Anti-Semitism is on the rise in our country,” said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, deputy of the Val d’Oise, a region near Paris, as he exited the meeting.

On Friday afternoon, a local rabbi’s 17-year-old son was attacked by two men near the synagogue, and suffered a broken nose. Also on Friday afternoon, an 18-year-old man was attacked by a group of five men, who insulted him and stole his cell phone. On Saturday night, a 28-year-old man wearing a kipah was verbally and physically abused by four men and suffered a dislocated shoulder, according to police sources. The culprits were found and placed in police custody.

Sammy Ghozlan, president of the National Office of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, said that “after the anti-Jewish murder of Ilan Halimi, these aggressions against the Jews of Sarcelles are perceived” by the culprits “as threats and provocations.”

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Ilan Halimi, a young Jewish man, spent the last weeks of his life tormented and tortured by his captors and splashed with acid in a low-ceilinged pump room in Bagneux, France. "I knew they had someone down there," said a young French-Arab man in the doorway of a building adjacent to the one where Mr. Halimi was held. "I didn't know they were torturing him." But it is clear that plenty of people did know, both that Mr. Halimi was being tortured and that he was Jewish. The police think at least 20 people participated in his abduction and the subsequent negotiations for ransom. (New York Times)