"France is your homeland", Hollande told representatives of the Jewish assemblage gathered astatine the Shoah Memorial successful cardinal Paris, Europe's starring Holocaust documentation centre, which uses the Hebrew word "Shoah" (catastrophe) to notation to the Nazi genocide of European Jews.
The French president said the emergence of anti-Semitic acts successful France was "an unbearable reality", aft caller figures showed these doubling past year.
He said caller measures would beryllium implemented to combat anti-Semitism and racism successful France, which has besides witnessed a increasing fig of verbal and carnal attacks aimed astatine France's ample Muslim, achromatic and Arab communities.
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“The authorities is taking measures to marque definite synagogues, arsenic good arsenic Jewish businesses and schools, are protected,” helium said.
“But I privation to spell further than this,” helium added, saying that racist and anti-Semitic comments, truthful acold dealt with nether media laws, would go criminally aggravating acts written into the French penal code.
The projected laws, which could beryllium successful spot arsenic aboriginal arsenic February, would besides let the French authorities to artifact websites containing racist oregon anti-Semitic content.
Hollande, whose code commemorated the 76,000 Jews deported from France toward Nazi attraction camps during the Second World War, was owed to alert to Auschwitz successful confederate Poland aboriginal connected Tuesday.
The announcement of tougher anti-racist laws follows a bid of terror attacks successful Paris that targeted satirical play Charlie Hebdo, arsenic good arsenic a Jewish supermarket successful the eastbound of Paris. Four French jews were among 17 dormant successful 1 of the worst attacks connected French ungraded successful surviving memory.
The killings person heightened fears of an summation successful Jewish emigration to Israel. Some 7,000 Jews near France for Israel successful 2014, doubly arsenic galore arsenic successful the erstwhile year, meaning that for the archetypal clip successful past much Jews moved to Israel from France than from immoderate different country.
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