Posted on 05/30/2006 5:30:06 AM PDT by SJackson
French police opened an investigation Monday after suspected members of an extremist group marched through a Jewish quarter in central Paris shouting anti-Semitic slogans over the weekend.
Shoppers in the historic Marais neighbourhood, one of the busiest districts in the Jewish area of Paris, were left in shock early Sunday evening after a group of extremists terrorized community members with anti-Semitic verbal abuse.
More than 20 men claiming to be members of the Tribu-Ka anti-white group walked up and down the crowded Rue des Rosiers shouting at the families and youths in the area.
The French Office of Vigilance against anti-Semitism (BNCVA) said in a statement the gang was "performing Nazi salutes, looking for a fight with the neighbourhood's Jews, threatening and intimidating them."
"We are in contact with the Interior Ministry and the police department over the matter," the head of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRCIF), Roger Cukierman, said.
"They screamed out 'Death to Jews!'" one witness, who would only give his name as Julien, told EJP.
"They told us they weren't Arabs and that they would 'kosherise' us," said a second witness, Stephan, a fifty-year-old butcher from the Panzer delicatessen.
"I've never been more scared in my life," book-salesman David R. added.
Police quickly broke up the march, running identity checks on 19 people, none of whom were armed. Security has been stepped up in the area. Since they committed no apparent offence, police let the men go.
There has been growing tension between the Jewish community and an extremist fringe of black youth as a result of what many consider to be the provocative attitude of young Jewish members of the right wing Betar and Jewish Defence League groups who try to physically confront anti-Semitism.
Tribu-Ka claims that young Jews attacked a black man during the February demonstration in memory of Ilan Halimi, the young French Jew who was kidnapped and killed by a gang, whose leader and several members were black.
However witnesses and dozens of black people who participated in the demonstration along with the Jewish community have denied this.
Tribu-Ka, an organisation created in December 2004 is opposed to all contacts between blacks and non-blacks.
In February 2005 a dozen young men and women claiming to be part of the Tribu-Ka infiltrated a meeting of the Jewish-black friendship association and vigorously advised the Jews to cease all contacts with their "Khemite brothers".
They also accused the Jews of being the descendants of slave-traders, an accusation repeated by controversial comic Dieudonne Mbala Mbala, who is among those Tribu-Ka view as an inspiration.
Tribu-Ka's leader is Kemi Seba, formerly known as Stellio Gilles Robert, a former member of Nation of Islam in Paris who has previously been indicted for racist incitement.
Since Tribu-Ka was formed, tensions between its members and the Jewish community has been increasing, especially with the members of Betar and the JDL.
Ten days earlier Tribu-Ka penetrated into a sports club used by the JDL and Betar and defied the Jews who were practicing Krav Maga, the Israeli martial art. When the young men answered they weren't part of the Jewish organizations, the thugs told them to tell JDL and Betar that they were looking for them.
When they walked up Rue des Rosiers on Sunday, the Tribu-Ka members said they wanted to confront militants from both groups who are known to be based in the Jewish Marais neighbourhood.
According to witnesses, the Jews failed to reply and forced passers-by into shops.
BNCVA said the gang was armed with sticks and baseball bats - though this was denied both by police and by independent witnesses.
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The French Office of Vigilance against anti-Semitism (BNCVA) said in a statement the gang was "performing Nazi salutes, looking for a fight with the neighbourhood's Jews, threatening and intimidating them....Since they committed no apparent offence, police let the men go.
I presume that mean no offences the police were courageous enough to charge them with.
(Since they committed no apparent offence, police let the men go.)
Apparently threatening people is not an offense in France.
On another note, isn't gun control grand?
No surprise in a country that names a street after Mumia abu-Jamal and practically has turned over the keys to the shop to the muslims. France's day is over as a Western nation.
What invaders were unable to do from without, France is allowing to happen from within.
That explains a lot.
This time when the French Government in exile asks the United States for help kicking the invaders out, I hope we have the sense to tell them to go pound sand. No blood for Brie!
There were only 20 people in this gang and they terrorized a whole district in Paris? There must not be any Jewish rednecks over there. Unfortunately I suppose the Jews in Paris are Frenchmen first, the white flag pops up automatically.
Charles Martel must be turning in his grave.
From the article:
There has been growing tension between the Jewish community and an extremist fringe of black youth as a result of what many consider to be the provocative attitude of young Jewish members of the right wing Betar and Jewish Defence League groups who try to physically confront anti-Semitism.
Note that there's no example of this "provocative attitude" by Jews in the article, but plenty of intimidation incidents by "black youth," including the ultimate intimidation: murder.
I guess "physical confrontation" is now a worse crime than murder in France, if you're Jewish, that is.
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Make no mistake. There are Democrat leaders sufficiently decadent, misguided, malevolent, and self-serving to do exactly that.
Meanwhile Hitler is thinking, "I could have used these guys."
Betar and JDL might classify as Jewish rednecks.
But, yes, unfortunately, many, perhaps most, French Jews belong to the "surrender, or hide and hope for the best" school of thought. Look where it gets them.
If members of the Jewish communities had rifles, and were trained in how to safely use them, there'd be far fewer incidents like this.
You can say that again.
I like that sign. *strokes chin* The question is...what dimensions would be proper for such a sign?
These third world idiots in the streets are deluding themselves. Their guttersnipe fuhrer would have, and did, send their ilk off to be exterminated.
I think Hitler would have allowed the Arabs to serve as puppet Nazi states had the Nazis won the war. He certainly would have used them to fight any Jews that settled into then-Palestine.
Can't do a damn thing with moslems, too much cultural baggage.
God help the Jews if they expect the French to protect them against these black Hitlers.
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