French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin insisted that Jews and members of all other faiths be allowed to display their religious attire in public, saying it was a force of the French Republic.
Darmanin was speaking earlier this week at the unveiling of 269 restored gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in the town of Sarre-Union, eastern France, which were vandalized in February 2015, some of them they being spray-painted with swastikas.
âFrance’s strength lies in granting a public right to followers of religious denominations, and of course to Jews, to maintain their religion. [and] let them preserve their dress in public and preserve their Jewish appearance, âDarmanin said.
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“It is our great responsibility to be careful with the words, to give all the support necessary for a sympathetic and inclusive speech, and to condemn any intolerance in any form,” he said.
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The minister’s comments may have referred to an incident last week in which far-right French nationalist and likely presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, who is also Jewish, asked a Muslim woman to remove her hijab. during a tour in the Parisian suburb of Drancy.
Hundreds of members of the Jewish community, as well as local residents of Strasbourg and the Bas-Rhin region of France, attended the inauguration ceremony, along with the French Chief Rabbi and the First Vice-President of the Conference of European Rabbis, Rabbi Haim Korsia, French members of parliament and other dignitaries.
Also present were Rabbi Avraham Weill, Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg and Bas-Rhin and permanent member of the Conference of European Rabbis; Prefect of the Grand Est region Josiane Chevalier; elected president of the Israelite Central Consistory of France Elie Korchia; and president of the Israelite Consistory of Bas-Rhin Maurice Dahan.
In the past five years, there have been two other incidents in which Jewish cemeteries were desecrated in eastern France, Alsace – particularly in Herrlisheim and Quatzenheim – while another in the south- western France was also vandalized.
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