Pierre Mendes-France, former French Premier, was the target of severe anti-Semitic heckling last night at an election of his Radical Socialist Party in the Paris suburb of St. Denis.
The hecklers were several hundred Poujadists, members of the anti-tax movement sparked by Pierre Poujade, who has added anti-Semitism to his political stock in trade. The newspaper Le Monde today hit the anti-Semitic attacks on M. Mendes-France.
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