French president condemns arson at Jewish center in Paris
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French President Jacques Chirac condemned on Sunday the arson that destroyed a Jewish social center in Paris and extended &quot;all his solidarity&quot; to the Jewish community in France, Chirac&#39;s office declared in a statement.
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PARIS The French government issued a sharp new condemnation of racism Monday as a previously unknown Islamic extremist group claimed responsibility for burning a Jewish center here.
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Arsonists razed a Jewish community centre in eastern Paris before dawn Sunday, leaving behind red graffiti with menacing anti-Semitic messages such as &quot;Jews get out.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin declared Sunday that &quot;France will be extremely severe against those who perpetrate anti-semitism,&quot; after visiting the Jewish social
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Arsonists razed a Jewish community centre in Paris, leaving behind menacing graffiti including swatiskas and the words &quot;Jews get out.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, facing a tide of criticism over his call for schoolchildren to "adopt" Jewish child victims of the Holocaust, hit back on Friday saying France had to raise children "with open eyes".
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Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, on a hasty visit to France after a Jewish soup kitchen was burned down, urged French officials and judges on Tuesday to punish anti-Semitic culprits more severely.
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French police arrest a Jewish man over a fire at  a Paris Jewish centre initially blamed on anti-Semites.
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PARIS Paris police say arsonists destroyed a Jewish community center in a pre-dawn attack today, and scrawled graffiti and swastikas inside the building.
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Arsonists set fire to a Jewish soup  kitchen in central Paris early on Sunday morning and daubed  Nazi symbols on the building, police said, in the latest  anti-Semitic act in France.
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French police are investigating an arson-caused fire at a Jewish Social Center that might have killed dozens without the quick response of firefighters.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Thursday France's Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was among French officials whom he accuses of supporting the 1994 genocide.Comment
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Indonesia's president-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemned as &quot;an act of violence&quot; a bombing outside his country's embassy in Paris.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame, involved  in a row with France over the 1994 genocide in his country,  further criticized French involvement in Africa on Monday,  blaming some of the continent's woes on Paris.
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French President Jacques Chirac urged Turkey on Saturday to acknowledge the mass killings of Armenians in the early 20th century as genocide.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated an expanded Holocaust Memorial in Paris on Tuesday promising dozens of Nazi death camp survivors that France would "never forget what it could not prevent."
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Arsonists destroyed a Jewish community center in eastern Paris before dawn on Sunday, leaving behind red graffiti with menacing anti-Semitic messages such as ''Jews get out.'' Flames gnawed away the wooden ...