Ah, cheese-eating surrender monkey, you obviously didn’t read that Journal du Dimanche article too closely. Because it specifically stated that the plainclothes cop had been beaten, kicked to the ground and received a kick to the stomach, and had his glasses smashed BEFORE he saw a “dark mass” flying at him, which he shot at AFTER warnings. Of course, this was all after the repeated taunts, threats, etc. There was sufficient reason to believe that the cop feared for his life that the group SOS Racisme took a public stand DEFENDING the cop—a first ever for that group.
Also: the mother of the young Jew gave a statement in the paper thanking the policeman for his courage in saving her son, who btw is not even a supporter of the Israeli team, he had in fact called his mother when the score was 2-2, and thought that was just great. Apparently, Yanniv got separated from his friends while looking for the metro entrance, and was verbally attacked and then feared for his life.
If you want to deny anti-semitism in France, you’ll have to do better than this. J’aime la France, but I also recognize that it continues to have a problem with antisemitism–I even hear it from people I know, it’s such a casual bigotry. But the problem with antisemitism in France is the same as the problem with globalisation and anti-liberalisme : envy, jealousy and a profound distaste for the success of others (ou bien : “les fran√ßais aiment l’argent, mais pas celui des autres…”). And this is a problem France has to overcome if it is to faire face to all of its current economic and social problems.
