A crowd estimated at several thousand French Jews and other supporters of Israel demonstrated outside the Palestine Liberation Organization office here yesterday demanding that it be closed. A heavy cordon of riot police surrounding the PLO office prevented the demonstrators from reaching the building.
The demonstration was triggered by the murder last Saturday of Yaacov Bar-Simantov, a second secretary at the Israel Embassy, who was fatally shot by an unidentified woman outside his home. Israel insists the PLO was responsible for the killing. French officials, including Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy, said there is no evidence so far linking the murder with the PLO.
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