Two Paris policemen have been given indefinite suspensions for becoming involved in an anti-Jewish incident in a cafe in a Jewish-populated district of Paris, it was learned today. The suspensions came on the heels of a protest to the prefect of police by Dr. Vidal Modiano, president of CRIF, central representative body of French Jewry.
Meanwhile, the French daily and weekly press has devoted considerable space to a new wave of anti-Semitism in this country. France Observateur, a leftwing paper, reporting a number of anti-Semitic incidents which occurred recently, calls it an “alarming situation” and notes anti-Semitism came to the fore again in the wake of the North African campaign.
The rightwing Paris Presse, on the other hand, directs attention at anti-Semitism in Russia and the Communist lands and insists that attention must first be paid to Eastern Europe because anti-Semitism is “most acute” there.
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