"In 20 years, and despite the resolute efforts of our police officers, gendarmes, judges, teachers and elected officials, the antisemitic hydra has kept advancing,"
"Constantly assuming new faces, it has insinuated itself into the heart of our societies, into every crevice, too often accompanied by that same pact of cowardice: to keep silent, to refuse to see."
""mandatory electoral bans" for officials guilty of "antisemitic, racist, and discriminatory acts and remarks""
"All too often, the sentences handed down against the perpetrators of antisemitic offenses and crimes seem derisory,"
Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old French Jewish man, was kidnapped by a gang in January 2006, tortured in a Paris suburb and died three weeks later en route to hospital. Emmanuel Macron described an "antisemitic hydra" that has advanced over 20 years, taking new forms and embedding itself across society, often aided by silence. Macron singled out Islamist, far-left, and anti-Zionist disguises of antisemitism. He called for mandatory electoral bans for officials guilty of antisemitic or racist acts, criticized lenient sentences for offenders, and said government and parliament will strengthen penalties. France houses about half a million Jewish people.
Read at The Local France
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