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...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...
...bitterly proclaimed that "once again the cry is heard in the streets of Paris, 'Death to the Jews!' " deliberately stirring images of anti-Semitic incidents at the time of Jewish Army Officer Alfred Dreyfus' trial in the 1890s. Begin even indirectly accused President François Mitterrand of helping to create an anti-Semitic climate in France that fostered the attack. Begin charged that the massacre resulted from "the shocking talk and anti-Israeli incitement which has become like anti-Jewish incitement." The Prime Minister was referring to a remark by Mitterrand comparing the aggressive Israeli attacks...
When the French President attended a memorial service for the victims of last week's shootings, Jewish demonstrators shouted, "Mitterrand is a traitor!" Deeply affected, Mitterrand said after the service, "I have always been a friend of the Jewish community of France...
Paris has thus become the Continent's undisputed center of terrorism for a variety of reasons. Traditionally, the country has been known as a land of asylum. It has favored an open visa system, a loose border policy and lax airport checks. Mitterrand has adopted a less stringent policy toward terrorists than his conservative predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
Given last week's vicious attack and the recent increase in terrorist incidents, the Mitterrand government has begun to reconsider its lenient policies. Gaston Defferre, Minister of the Interior, has called for a redefinition of the right to political asylum, and the French Cabinet is scheduled to produce a report this week on improving internal security. It will not appear a moment too soon for Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Says he: "Paris has become a hunting ground...