Prague’s Jewish leadership spoke out following a racially motivated attack in the Czech town of Svitavy that left a Gypsy dead from stab wounds. Jewish officials said the incident, which involved a skinhead, gives fresh urgency to their recent appeal to the Czech people not to tolerate neo-Nazi activities.
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