French President warns of threat of anti-Semitic and anti-Islam attacks

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Thursday 19 Feb 2015 - 15:39 Makkah mean time-30-4-1436 French President Hollande warns of threat of anti-Semitic and anti-Islam attacks (Google image) Paris, (IINA) - French President Francois Hollande warned on Tuesday that the growing number of acts against Jewish people and Muslims threatens the country's very foundations as he visited a graveyard desecrated by vandals, Evening Standard newspaper reported. Speaking after walking around the vandalized graveyard, the President noted that anti-Semitism and acts against Muslims are both on the rise in France, particularly after terrorist attacks last month in Paris on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket that left 20 people dead, including the three gunmen. He said that anti-Semitic acts doubled in 2014 compared with 2013, and acts against Muslims in just the month after the attacks totalled the same as the entire previous year. Hollande's comments follow a report on France released Tuesday by the Council of Europe's human rights commissioner Nils Muiznieks. SM/IINA