Posted on 11/26/2006 12:26:17 PM PST by Nachum
A Jewish fan of the HaPoel Tel Aviv soccer team was attacked by French fans in Paris Thursday, resulting in a police shooting that left one dead and one injured.
The incident took place at 11 PM at a McDonald’s restaurant near Paris’s Parc des Princes stadium following Tel Aviv’s 4-2 victory over Paris Saint-Germain in a UEFA Cup match.
Paris fans attacked four French Jewish fans after members of the mob identified them as “Jews”. The Jews fled in different directions and a mob formed chasing after one of them, Yaniv Hazout.
A plain-clothes policeman tossed tear gas grenades in an attempt to disperse the mob and eventual fired two live bullets into the crowd, “after being driven into the corner,” according to the French police.
Two French rioters were injured by the shooting. One, 24-year-old Julien Quemener, later died of his wounds.
Initial reports indicated that the attacked fans were Israelis who came to France to support the Israeli team. It turned out, though, that the attacked fans were local French Jews who came out in support of the Israeli team. Israeli fans were actually kept in the stadium for more than an hour after the game to prevent them from becoming targets of the angry mob, after they insisted on coming onto the field to celebrate the victory.
The spokesman for Hapoel Tel Aviv, Amir Lubin, told Army Radio that French fans were extremely hostile toward the Israelis who came to support their team. "We could hear the chants of the French crowd, which were in no way connected to soccer," he said. "It was obvious that the Paris supporters were enraged by the result of the game, but we didn't imagine it would come to this," he said.
French prosecutors have opened an inquiry into the incident, and placed the officer who fired the shots, Antoine Granomort, in police custody.
Witnesses told police that the Paris fans were shouting “filthy Jews” and other anti-Semitic slogans at the Jewish fans and would have truly killed them had Granomort, an immigrant from the Caribbean, not fired into the crowd.
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said many of the Paris fans were chanting “Death to the Jews” during the attack. Five fans are in police custody and may face charges of racism and anti-Semitism.
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In other words, they arrested the police officer who saved the Jews.
What a silly question, Jacques -- why we shoot the Jews, of course!
Brave and honorable are the French.
Lol- might was well blame it on the jews, wouldn't want the french to confuse the world by switching tactics and actually blaming the perpetrators- that'd be a shock to the system. what did the 'french' attack the jews with anyway? White Flags? http://sacredscoop.com
More details:
"About 100 PSG fans gathered to chase one Tel Aviv supporter, the prosecutor said, at which point Mr Granomort, who is black, tried to intervene.
"Witnesses said the crowd hurled racist insults at him, while making Nazi salutes and shouting anti-Jewish abuse at the man he was trying to protect.
"According to the French authorities, Mr Granomort was physically attacked as he shouted that he was a police officer and pulled out his gun.
"Fans interviewed on French radio said he had appeared to fire two shots in panic, as he was pushed to the ground.
"He then sought refuge in a McDonald's restaurant with the man he had been trying to defend, while police reinforcements were brought in to restore calm.
I would suppose that drinking was also involved.....
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Initial reports indicated that the attacked fans were Israelis who came to France to support the Israeli team. It turned out, though, that the attacked fans were local French Jews who came out in support of the Israeli team. Israeli fans were actually kept in the stadium for more than an hour after the game to prevent them from becoming targets of the angry mob, after they insisted on coming onto the field to celebrate the victory.
Not the first time the French have "detained" Jews in a sports stadium. A shame they destroyed the Velodrome d'Hiver after the war, it would have been a fitting venue.
Cars emmenant des Juifs au vélodrome
The article never says how many of these French fans were Muslims, and how many were French. I'm not whether there's much difference, when it comes to antisemitism. The French of an earlier generation gladly helped the Nazis round up Jews and sent them to the death camps. Now they are back to their old tricks.
Anyone who cooperates with grave evil is guilty of grave evil. That applies to France, I'm sorry to say. It now seems to apply from the top down: to Chirac, a great pal of Saddam Hussein who helped arm him and provide him with nuclear facilities, down to these soccer fans who think it's chic to imitate Nazis.
French, Muslims, Nazis... where the hell is the difference?
The spirit of Vichy is out in the open - again.
My guess is this was Muslim mob with a few white Frenchmen. That's who ganged up on the Jews
I dunno, but Id be a tad pissed if people who are ostensibly from my country come out to support a foreign team because of their religion!
If they dont like france, they can always move to israel.
If they dont like france, they can always move to israel.
Oh of course you would. And you would certainly join the mob in trying to beat them to death. Oh those darn Jews. They should just stay in Israel where they belong.
How precious.
If you don't like the Red Wings, you can always move to Canada, eh!
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Why am I sitting here convinced that the news agencies that reported intentionally left out all facts about the attackers being muslims? The headline should be, Out of control Islamic raciest mob attempts to murder Jewish sports fans!!!!!!!!
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