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June 5, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/lyon-rabbi-villeurbanne-attack-the-culmination-od-unbearable-atmosphere/

Lyon Assault Is Latest French Anti-Semitic Incident

(Times of Israel) - Philip Podolsky - Anti-Semitic incidents in France have picked up since the Toulouse murders of a rabbi and three children outside a Jewish school in March. On Saturday night near Lyon, 10 attackers assaulted three 18-year-old Jewish men outside a Jewish center in Villeurbanne. Two of the victims were taken to the hospital after being beaten with a hammer and metal rod by attackers of North African extraction. Joel Mergui, president of the Central Consistory umbrella organization, said the country's Jews were under constant attack. "Not a week passes without anti-Semitic assaults in France." The chief rabbi of the Grand Synagogue in Lyon, Richard Wertenschlag, called the atmosphere "unbearable."

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