Anti-Semitic attacks jump in France

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Tuesday February 27, 3:18 AM Reuters
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Anti-Semitic attacks jump in France*

PARIS (Reuters) - The number of anti-Semitic incidents in France jumped
sharply in 2006, lifted by attacks following the brutal murder of a
young Jew at the start of the year and by the war in Lebanon, a Jewish
group said on Monday.

CRIF, the representative council of Jewish institutions in France, said
physical attacks on Jews rose 46 percent to 112 last year from 77 in 2005.

Anti-Semitic "actions", including both assaults and lesser attacks such
as throwing objects or causing material damage, rose 40 percent to 213
from 152, while the number of threats rose by 7 percent to 158.

CRIF said the rise in attacks appeared to have been fuelled by the
murder of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man whose death at the hands
of a group of kidnappers in February last year shocked France.

Halimi was found naked and tortured after three weeks in captivity and
died shortly afterwards.

The leader of the kidnappers said they had wanted to extort a ransom and
denied acting out of anti-Semitic motives, but the Interior Ministry
branded it an anti-Semitic act and it was followed by a spate of attacks
on Jews in Paris.

CRIF also said the war in Lebanon between Israeli forces and Hezbollah
guerrillas during July and August of 2006 sparked a rise in attacks in
France which continued into September and October.

"Anti-Semitic actions are carried out sometimes with real determination,
sometimes simply because an opportunity presents itself," it said in a
statement.

The statistics were collected from reports by the service for the
protection of the Jewish community (SPCJ), which counts both attacks
reported on a hotline and information supplied by the Interior Ministry.

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