French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy were guests at a Friday night service in a Paris synagogue. The visit, which was not announced in advance by the Prime Minister’s Office, comes as the government announced new measures this week to combat anti-Semitism following an arson at a Jewish school north of the capital.
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