A French official will appear before a court here in September on charges that his books contains languages that will incite others to hate and discriminated against Arabs, Jews and blacks.
Jean de Boishue, secretary of state in charge of universities, published “Suburb My Love” in May.
The book is “full of totally racist ideas freely expressed,” said the lawyers of both SOS-Racisme, the nationally known association fighting against racism, and a young West Indian man living in Bretigny, suburb of Paris administered by de Boishue.
In a chapter titled “The New Castaways,” de Boishue writes about the travels of a Jewish couple, Vital and Louise, who constantly are on the move.
Of Vital, also called “the Wandering Jew,” de Boishue writes that he “was perpetuating the fate of his forebears,” that “his six brothers and sisters were already colonizing all the planet” and that if he chose Paris, it was because “in a real city there is always some space for a merchant; for a Jew there will always be street belonging to Jews.”
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