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The targeted beating took place on Thursday night, which marked the third night of rioting that has rocked France since the police shooting of 17-year-old French-Algerian Nahel M., who was well-known to the police for his lengthy criminal history. ... Police sources have confirmed that the shocking viral video of a man laying unconscious on the ground after being beaten by Muslim rioters was an off-duty French police officer. He was one of two off-duty officers severely wounded by the mob. In the video, one man is heard saying to the unconscious off-duty officer: “You’re knocked out on the ground,...

Two people have been killed during a knife attack at a Marseille train station, according to police. The assailant, who was reportedly shouting ‘Allahu Akbar,’ was shot dead by an army patrol at the scene. The incident took place at the Saint-Charles train station in Marseille on Sunday, when a man attacked passers-by with a knife. One person was killed by the assailant at the scene, while another succumbed a short while after, according to police chief Olivier de Mazières. The attacker, who was reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar,” was shot dead by an army patrol. At least two shots were...

Many French citizens have traveled in Israel as part of their annual holiday, but this week a few hundred of them landed at Ben Gurion Airport—forever. Three flights arrived from Paris and another one made its way from Marseilles. On the aircraft were new immigrants who said they were fulfilling a dream. “I feel I’ve arrived home; making aliyah is a dream come true,” said Sabrina Kozirov, 40, who came from France with her husband and two teenage daughters. … Kozirov said, “The situation in France had become unbearable. There is a large Muslim community and harsh political criticism of...

French Socialist Francois Hollande appeared headed to victory over President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to exit polls of voters released by Swiss and Belgian news media. Those polls showed Hollande with 52 to 53 percent of the vote in an election that turned on solutions for Europe's economic crisis amid record unemployment in France. French voters were still headed to cast their ballots when the exit polls were released in the early evening _ the results of exit polls cannot be published in France until voting ends at 8 p.m., 2 p.m. Eastern _ but the outcome seemed all but certain.

(IsraelNN.com) Vandals struck again at the Jewish cemetery in Marseilles, France today. The Marseilles police department reported that several gravestones were spray-painted with slogans such as “White Power” and the name of a neo-fascist organization called “New Order”, as well as Nazi swastikas. The city’s mayor condemned the anti-Semitic vandalism and called for capturing, trying and stiffly punishing those responsible. Synagogues, Jewish schools and the Jewish cemetery in Marseilles have been targeted repeatedly over recent years by anti-Semitic vandals and arsonists.