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| Arsonist In Kosher Paris Supermarket Blaze Gets 4 Years In Jail |
| 2014-11-08 |
| [IsraelTimes] The four-year prison sentence given to the man who torched a kosher supermarket in suburban Gay Paree "sent an important message," the chief rabbi of La Belle France said. The Correctional Tribunal of Pontoise near Gay Paree on Oct. 26 sentenced a 27-year-old ambulance driver for setting fire to the Naouri kosher supermarket in Sarcelles, a heavily Jewish suburb of the French capital, on July 20. Identified in the French media as Abbas C., the driver was given a longer term than the 26 months sought by the prosecutor. "This sentence reflects the determination of the judiciary to fight anti-Semitic crimes," Rabbi Haim Korsia, the chief rabbi of La Belle France, told JTA on Tuesday. Korsia added that the French government under President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... and Prime Minister Manuel Valls also was "vigilant and firm" in dealing with anti-Semitism. Besides arson, Abbas C. was convicted of assaulting coppers, whom he pelted with stones, and the aggravated theft of a television set from a shop whose display window was smashed by rioters on the day of the fire. The riots had broken out in Sarcelles and elsewhere in Gay Paree that month against Israel's actions in Gazoo during this summer's 50-day operation against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the coastal strip. In some of the disturbances, Jewish individuals and Jewish-owned businesses were targeted, along with nine synagogues throughout La Belle France. Demonstrators in several of the riots turned against coppers, whom they targeted with stones, metal bars and other projectiles. Several of the culprits have been sentenced to jail time. The demonstrations took place despite a temporary ban on political protests about Israel. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Identified in the French media as Abbas C. One of Le Pen's no doubt. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-08 14:46 |