Youssef Kakaon, Jewish proprietor of a grocery shop in the Medina area of this city, narrowly escaped death when a bomb hurled at the front of his shop failed to explode. Kakaon had received a letter in badly written French a few days before the bomb was thrown, in which he was “forbidden” to sell French goods.
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