France posthumously presented its highest honor to the four Jews who were killed lst week in the terrorist attack against a kosher supermarket in Paris, Phillipe Barham, Yohan Cohen, Francis-Michel Saada and Yoav Hattab.
BBC reporter Tim Willcox left campaigners against anti-Semitism unmoved with an apology for causing “unintentional” offense after he made an anti-Semitic comment on live television yesterday.
The bodies of the four French Jews killed last Friday in a terror attack by an Islamist jihadist on a kosher supermarket in Paris arrived early Tuesday in Israel were they will be buried in Jerusalem.
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) is considering re-opening a representative office in Paris given French Jewry’s importance, WJC President Ronald S. Lauder told French President Francois Hollande during a meeting in Paris on Monday.
French controversial comedian Dieudonné, who has several convictions for making anti-Semitic remarks and jokes, has been placed under investigation by the Paris prosecutor for “inciting terrorism” after he posted a comment on Facebook that appeared to sympathise with the gunmen who killed four Jews in a kosher supermarket last Friday.
A fire broke out Monday afternoon at the Royal Music Conservatory of Brussels, located right next to the Great Synagogue of the Belgian capital, prompting the evacuation of some 150 people in the building.