Pave: Who To Believe? France Or Those Lying Jews? IX

Le jour 406 de Sarko

Non, la France n'est pas un pays antisémite. ... La France n'accepte pas l'antisémitisme ; elle le combat. Mais elle n'accepte pas non plus les accusations qui touchent à son honneur.

[No, France is not an anti-Semitic country. ... France does not accept anti-semitism; she fights it. But neither does she accept charges that wound her honor.]

Ex-Jack,
then-president of anti-Semite-free France,
explaining how France while battling
French anti-Semitism morning, noon, and night,
cannot, as a point of honor, acknowledge
claims of anti-Semiticsm in France
PALAIS DE L'ÉLYSEE February 13, 2004
(Élysée/Yedioth Aharonoth)

First this.

JEWISH TEEN TORTURED IN FRENCH TOWN
WHERE ILAN HALIMI WAS KILLED

March 6, 2008 (Haaretz) - The incident of brutal abuse began at 10 A.M. on February 22. Mathieu Roumi, 19, whose father is Jewish, was strolling through his neighborhood in the Paris suburb of Bagneux, which has been the site of violent riots by immigrants in the past two years. The suburb became notorious as the scene of Ilan Halimi's 2006 murder, which horrified France.

... For two hours the attackers tortured the young man. One shoved cigarette butts into his mouth, another took issue with Roumi's Jewish origin, grabbed correction fluid and scrawled "dirty Jew" on his forehead. The six men proceeded to scream at him and threaten that he would die the way Halimi did. They identified themselves as members of the "Barbarians," the same gang that kidnapped Halimi... "We admire Youssouf Fofana!" they shouted at him, referring to the leader of the gang... Fofana and 29 other suspects are on trial for abduction, torture and murder. If convicted, they can expect a life sentence.

Roumi's life was spared because one of the assailants, who owned the basement space, had to leave and take the key with him. Roumi was set free and returned home, battered and broken.

And most recently this.

Deux ans après le meurtre d’Ilan Halimi par le gang des barbares, il est plus que temps de porter un coup d’arrêt aux agissements d’une violence inouïe dont les Juifs sont victimes de manière récurrente au cœur de la capitale de la République française.

[Two years after the murder of Ilan Halimi by the Barbarians gang, it is high time to deal a decisive blow to the unspeakable violence that Jews suffer in a recurrent fashion in the heart of the capital of the French republic.]

Ligue Internationale
Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme,
communiqué de presse on the latest
near-fatal beating of a young Jew
June 22, 2008 (LICRA)

FRANCE CONDEMNS ATTACK ON JEWISH TEENAGER
The Jewish Teenager Was Wearing A Kippah
When A Gang Of Youths Attacked Him
With Metal Bars And Smashed His Skull.

PARIS June 23, 2008 (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday led condemnation of an attack in Paris that left a Jewish teenager in a coma after he was beaten with metal bars, which organisations said was motivated by anti-Semitism.

The 17-year-old was lying in a coma in hospital after being savaged Saturday evening by youths in Paris' multi-ethnic 19th district, his father said.

What follows are the usual quotes from the usual officials and organizations sputtering outrage. Swift implacable justice! Intransigent justice! The harshest justice possible! All measures necessary! New measures! Invesigations! The same old blather. Meanwhile, French anti-Semitism notches up in savagery.

Then in the story's last paragraph, this gloss:

Anti-Semitism is a sensitive issue in France, where the 600,000-strong Jewish community is western Europe's largest, and which is also home to a five-million strong Muslim population.

AFP leaves you to connect those two big dots.

We would suggest the first step to combatting French anti-Semitism is to plainly identify the attackers. The press manages specificity when maligners are skinheads and white.

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* The famous mystery youths of France (and here). The government knows precisely where they live, but has no clue who they are. The police have come to recognize them.

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