Twenty-three Moscow Jews have written what they call a “sharp” protest to the mayor of Toulouse, France, over the death of 14-year-old Roger Allouche following alleged beatings by anti-Semitic schoolmates. The Muscovites, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported today, said the incident was significant in that France has had a tradition of “reason and humanism.” They noted that “assimilation is not protection against anti-Semitism,” apparently a reference to the fact that Allouche attended a Jesuit school. The Toulouse authorities and French Jewish groups are investigating the death of Allouche, who was buried Jan. 31.
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