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  As a wave of attacks on Jewish institutions and businesses and an assault on a Jewish couple outrages the French Jewish community, the French and Belgian authorities has promised to beef up security and Betar is calling for volunteers. Betar's activity is defensive, with youths volunteering to guard synagogues, restaurants, and particularly schools near Muslim neighborhoodsBetar Shaliach, David Mansour, spoke with Haaretz reporter.
Vandals set fire to two other synagogues in France over the weekend, one in the eastern city of Strasbourg and the other in southeastern Lyon. Both blazes were put out before serious damage was done. In the Lyon attack early Saturday, hooded assailants crashed two cars through the synagogue's main gate and then set fire to one of the vehicle's inside the temple's prayer hall. A Jewish school was broken into over the weekend in Sarcelles, in the Val d'Oise region north of Paris, police said yesterday. The same school was robbed in July. On Sunday, a gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop near Toulouse, in southern France. The owner was inside at the time of the attack but unharmed. The heightened tensions in France, in particular, has prompted Betar to call for volunteers. According to David Mansour, the Betar emissary from Israel to the French movement, most of the activity is defensive, with youths volunteering to guard synagogues, restaurants, and particularly schools near Muslim neighborhoods. "We patrol from the time school is let out. There have been a lot of provocations by Muslim youths." He said that some fisticuffs have already broken out between Betar youths and Muslims. According to Mansour, about 24 Muslim youths in a Jewish neighborhood in Paris "began flying Palestinian flags and using sticks to beat Jews, until they got to our group. We fought back and then the police came. When the police began questioning us, the Arabs ran away." The youths are unarmed, since only the security forces in France are allowed to carry firearms. Read the whole article at: |
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