A French court fined a mayor some $2,300 for ordering school canteens to cease buying Israeli orange juice. Jean-Claude Willem, the Communist Party mayor of Seclin, was found not guilty of discrimination by a lower court in March, in a civil action brought by the head of the Lille Jewish community, Jean-Claude Komar. However, an appeal was launched at the instigation of Justice Minister Dominique Perben, and the higher court found that Willem had breached a law requiring local authorities to guarantee “the normal exercise of economic activity.”
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