A group of vandals broke into the offices of the Federation of Jewish Societies of France and of the French Jewish Loan Fund here, stealing 100,000 francs and damaging the properties, police reported today.
The vandalism was the latest in an apparent series of attacks on Jewish organization offices by what were believed to be anti-Semitic elements. There was no attempt to set fire to the two offices in the building, as was the case when the Jewish Agency office in Marseilles was raided several weeks ago.
Police said that the techniques used by the raiders in seeking to open the Federation’s safe indicated they were amateurs bent on causing trouble rather than professional thieves. They did succeed in forcing open the cash box of the Jewish Loan Fund where they found the 100, 000 francs.
The vandals left the premises by climbing a rope to the roof but there was no indication they entered the same way. An Education Ministry office nearby was broken into the same night by persons believed to be the same as those vandalizing the Jewish organization offices. Police have neither been able to find the criminals nor those who fired the Jewish Agency office in Marseilles and, several months before, the Agency offices here.
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