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...GOLDENBERG'S restaurant is invariably packed, even during the lazy month of August. The foremost kosher restaurant in the picturesque Jewish quarter of Paris, Goldenberg's attracts tourists and locals, businessmen and immigrant workers, the curious and the hungry. And so it was a few Mondays ago at 1:15 p.m.: a tight squeeze by the bar, a line at the deli counter, animated conversation around the tables. Later, someone was to call it a perfect setting for a massacre...
...when Minister of the Interior Gaston Deferre arrived at Goldenberg's a short while after the attack, a mob gathered outside appeared intent on a lynching. "Mitterrand traitor!" "Mitterrand assassin!" they yelled at the President's representative as the police struggled to maintain control. Deferre took in the scene, said nothing, and quickly left...
...NEARLY A MONTH AFTER the attack on Goldenberg's, it is possible to look back on events more dispassionately. Mitterrand's "radical elements" theory seems to hold water. Police have since dug up evidence linking the restaurant assassins to a PLO splinter group even more extreme in its demands than PLO leader Yassin Arafat. Simone Weil, a former minister and Auschwitz survivor has explained. "I truly do not believe the French are anti-Semitic. There are people in the world trying to destabilize our democracies. In France, Jews are the most obvious target...
...government here is sure there is a solid link between the Goldenberg's massacre and recent French diplomatic activism in the Middle East that appears to be strongly pro-Israel. But Mitterrand will not back down. "We must struggle for peace abroad just as we must fight terrorism at home. We will not--we cannot--give in." But until then, for the violence-plagued French, the worst may be yet to come...
Responsibility for three of the minor attacks was claimed by Direct Action, a small group of anarchists. No one assumed the responsibility for the shooting at Goldenberg's, but police suspect it was the work of Black June, a dissident Palestinian group. Yet the escalation of terrorist attacks in France is not limited to anti-Jewish violence. Two days after the Goldenberg's massacre, two bombs, one on the Champs-Elysées and one at the Iraqi embassy, injured six people. Since May, terrorist attacks of all kinds in Paris have killed 20 and wounded...