The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICA) announced that it is conducting a nationwide search to remove from store shelves a doll labeled “The Jew” which it described as an anti-Semitic caricature. Jean Pierre-Bloch, LICA president, said a civil action was planned against the Carrefour department store chain which retails the doll and that efforts were being made to track down the West German firm that manufactures it.
The doll was removed last week by court order from a Carrefour store near Dijon. But it has turned up on the shelves of other Carrefour outlets, notably in Creil, a suburb of Paris, and in Lyons and Marseilles. According to the process server who had the doll removed from the Dijon store, it has a tail ending in a hairy ball, a big red nose, a wide open mouth, a bald head and enormous ears. The sale of the dolls was deplored earlier by Msgr. Charles de la Brousse, the Bishop of Dijon.
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