Deadly racist attack in Paris ; attack in Germany

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"Jewish councilman was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday morning, prompting French media speculation of a racially motivated killing.

Alain Ghozland, from the Parisian suburb of Créteil, was found by his brother, who checked in on the city councilman after he failed to attend synagogue the previous evening.

While a police source who spoke with French daily Metro News admitted that it was “too early to know the cause of death,” Ghozland was reportedly found with stab wounds and bruising. His apartment appeared to have been ransacked and his car was missing from its parking spot outside.

The victim, whose father helped found the local Jewish cultural association, was active in Jewish affairs, and his death has shaken his co-religionists, according to the French newspaper.

He was described by the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF), the umbrella organization representing French Jewry, as “a prominent leader of the local Jewish community.”

“People are upset. They do not know what to think and ask a lot of questions,” one relative was quoted as saying.

This is not the first time that the town’s Jewish community has faced anti-Semitism. In late 2014, armed assailants broke into an apartment belonging to a Jewish couple, before raping the woman and robbing them.

Before the rape, the men demanded that the couple hand over their credit cards and codes, the couple told police. The assailants told the couple they shouldn’t try to pretend they don’t have money because they knew the victims were Jewish, the couple said.

Ghozland’s murder comes right on the heels of attacks on French Jews in Marseilles and Puttgarden, Germany.

In the second, unrelated, attack, two migrants from Syria and Afghanistan attacked a French Jew at a ferry terminal in Puttgarden, Germany.

According to German newspaper Bild, they approached the man, who was wearing a kippa, verbally identified him as a “Yahud” – meaning ‘Jew’ in Arabic – and knocked him down before kicking and robbing him.

After the Marseilles attack, the Élysée Palace issued a statement that there was “no doubt” the attack was anti-Semitic in nature and that President François Hollande would “assure the mobilization of public authorities to act with the greatest firmness against anti-Semitism and racism.”
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/French-Jewish-politician-found-dead-with-stab-wounds-in-his-home-441254

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