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NEWS
Young Jew in Sarcelles Fears Reprisal After Attacker
Killed by Policeman
By Arnon Yaffeh, Paris
The Jewish neighborhoods of Sarcelles north of Paris were
placed on alert by the Mayor based on information that
members of the right-wing organization Boulogne Boys were
headed to the town to exact revenge against Jews after a
policeman killed one of their members while saving the life
of a young Jew from a mob late last week. Since the incident
Yaniv Hazout has not stepped out of his house, which is
surrounded by police cars and reporters.
Last Thursday a band of hooligans, some sporting tattoos and
skinheads, nearly lynched the young man in the Park de France
following a soccer match between a Tel Aviv team and a Paris
team. They were voicing antisemitic and anti-black remarks.
Had it not been for Antoine Granomort, a dark-skinned,
plainclothes policeman from the Antilles Islands who shot one
of the attackers because he also felt threatened, French Jews
would be mourning another victim of antisemitism.
The Attorney General said the policeman tried to fend off the
mob, but was knocked down and had bottles thrown at him.
While still on the ground he had to shoot to death one
attacker and injure another.
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