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Torture Killing of French Jew Spurs March
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| Last Edited | Penguin Feb 27, 2006 12:14am |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Monday, February 27, 2006 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | PARIS - Tens of thousands of demonstrators, joined by politicians of all stripes, marched through Paris on Sunday to protest racism and anti-Semitism after the torture and killing of a Paris Jew.
Police said some 33,000 people marched, while organizers said anywhere from 80,000 to 200,000 people took part.
Smaller marches took place in Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux, where Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard, named a cardinal this week by the pope, joined in.
Several government ministers joined the march in Paris, which made its way from Place de la Republique to La Place de la Nation, in eastern Paris, in a chilling cold.
"Today, we must march, we must stand up, to say that in France each of us has the right to live in dignity whatever his God, his religion, the color of his skin," said Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy.
With punches and boos, a crowd ejected right-wing politician Philippe de Villiers from the march. De Villiers' Movement for France blames immigration for France's social ills. Another political party, the extreme-right National Front, was banned from the march by organizers. |
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