French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy visited the offices of a Zionist youth movement in Paris where two Jewish youths were beaten up during an anti-war demonstration in March. Addressing the upper house of the French legislature April 3, Sarkozy also condemned demonstrators who had carried flags showing a swastika in the middle of an Israeli flag.
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