The Interior Ministry reported a rise in recorded acts of anti-Semitism of 74% in 2018. The acts included threats, thefts and in one case a murder. In Paris this weekend the portraits of Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor and major French and European politician, considered by many as one of the most important post-war contributors to French society, were defaced with swastikas.
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| The artist Christian Guemy removed the graffiti from his image |
The artist who created the images cleaned them up himself and insisted that no matter how many times they were defaced he would restore them.
France 2 TV last night aired a documentary showing the battle in France in the 1930s for dominance by fascist sympathisers and left wing republicans. The importance of defeating this growing menace was graphically illustrated but ultimately led to the horrors of the war.
