French leaders condemned two hate crimes. Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said Monday that the weekend attacks, in which swastikas were painted on a wall of Paris’ Grand Mosque and a gas bomb was thrown at a train car that the Nazis used to deport Jews during World War II, are “utterly unspeakable and ignominious.”
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