France stepped up security at Jewish sites for the High Holidays. The increased security comes after France’s interior minister, Dominique de Villepin, said 160 violent anti-Semitic acts had been reported in the first six months of 2004, compared to 75 such acts in the same period of 2003, Agence-France Presse reported.
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