VIDEO – Following an attack on a Jewish couple last Monday in Créteil, a citizen rally was held Sunday in the city in presence of the Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve <. / p>
The anti-Semitic nature of the attack sparked a wave of indignation. A rally was held Sunday morning in Créteil after the violent burglary suffered by a young Jewish couple on Monday in the city of Val-de-Marne.
The couple was kidnapped in its housing Port area, the young woman raped, robbed the apartment. According to the prosecution, the three attackers “were based on the idea that being Jewish meant that one had money.” The attack, described as “savage” by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), aroused great emotion.
The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who had strongly condemned the aggression was present among the hundreds of people gathered Sunday morning. On the banks of the small lake of Créteil, the host of Beauvau announced that the fight against anti-Semitism and racism, was now “a great national cause.” “We must make the fight against racism and anti-Semitism a national cause involving all interested administrations of Education, Justice, the Department of the City, prefectures, elected officials, associations, representatives of different religions. ” “Anti-Semitic acts have increased by over 100% in the first ten months of the year,” he said recalling his opposition to “the events of last summer where we shouted Death to the Jews “and having” made in Sarcelles during the riots of July. ” “More than 930 cases have been prosecuted in the first half,” insisted Bernard Cazeneuve.
For the Minister of the Interior, “is the strongest that has to be at work on anti-Semitic acts and threats.” “Whosoever shall be guilty of anti-Semitic and racist acts will relentlessly pursued, arrested and punished,” he promised. And said they were ‘instructed prefects to report to prosecutors all acts and all racist and antisemitic words so that no one goes unpunished. “
Facing a white-hot rally He denounced “the evil that threatens all the French, which attacks the base of the republican pact”. “Anti-Semitism is a disease that affects the body social isolation. It thrives on the soil of more diffuse hatreds. ” And worry “a French company, where anti-Semitism and discrimination become encysted.”
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Carefully, the Minister has avoided the confusion between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism systematically putting the center of his about the values of the Republic.
On the sidelines of the gathering, Bernard Cazeneuve recalled that “the catalyst of these phenomena is undoubtedly the digitization of society. The canvas gives a feeling of impunity and neutrality. 90% of extremists radicalized by the fabric, not having gone to see an Imam at the mosque, “he said. “It is essential now to regulate the Internet without compromising freedom of expression. The French population as a whole is neither racist nor anti-Semitic. Awareness and a national mobilization on these subjects are possible. ”
A little earlier, in private, the interior minister met with the victim’s family, still in shock and that he did not hesitate to give his phone number.
Terrée for one week in an apartment “where it is difficult to live”, the latter did not wish to attend the rally that has not been smooth. Esther Benbassar, Senator Ecology, this figure was sharply taken to task by several participants up to be publicly insulted.
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