tv Check-in Deutsche Welle August 25, 2019 9:02am-9:31am CEST
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already left france or israel others have been moving from the suburbs to city centers because they feel safer there. it is now 8 30 in the evening so many guys land has come to the lady laura area of the city to meet the victim of an anti semitic attack. benson your moved here only recently. i love an image with all the while our. backyard in the place i haven't packed my things for the bathroom these are my plates and everything i need fish about. a few months ago unknown individuals broke into her apartment and vandalized it. the perpetrators scratched anti semitic slogans into the doors of
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her car and slashed the tires the police advised her to leave her apartment immediately. because it takes time to really settle that. under lots of what was the most important thing is that you're now in safety for. the surgery i'm sure will. pay a high price for this sunday semitism. ok we weren't physically injured. but i have to ask myself why just because we jews although that's actually what the problem is it makes me want to cry. we used to have a quiet life. the 1st sometimes i can't take it anymore. you have to be strong. at least you're here now. because law won't leave us alone here ever since it all happened he sent
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me messages every single week asking how we doing he also wants me to talk about my experiences at the meeting with other victims. i think talking about it is a form of therapy. the next morning gus line is on his way to the office set up with some like minded friends. his mobile phone never stops ringing effectively his own hotline for jews in distress. new cases arrive on an almost daily basis as the work continues to pile up for the volunteers. and. even when sam is in israel he calls several times an hour he might be in israel but essentially he's with us here in the office the local people. they gather here every day providing advice and comfort to victims and putting them in contact with lawyers they work also involves raising awareness
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about anti semitism among the public. and. some of the alerts they receive come from the general public. like this cartoon they've just received by e-mail. well in a few someone sent me this poster asking us to do something about it. you can see an arm with a name which is supposed to symbolize jewish financial power. and that arm is controlling president mark kong like a puppet. threatening a french citizen. the post is by a right wing nationalist group that posts from an address outside of france they discuss what to do they say jews in france are threatened by both islamists and right wing radicals. is wrong. one
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group accuses the jews of being on the side of israel and such against the palestinians but. the other group believe that the jews rule the world they put. this into a young. to some degree. but it's the same $800.00. both groups want to see the jews disappear. and to dominate and destroy them. but sometimes the paperwork has to wait because some e. is eager to hit the streets where the people are. he feels that paris has changed a lot in recent years a number of jewish run stores have closed he says especially in the bond years. and the few that do still exist have military for protection.
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but i'm from a few people this is will filippo goose in the 11th on busy mall where my dad nor lived an elderly woman who was murdered. she was stabbed to death. a holocaust survivor reportedly killed by a muslim neighbor of north african descent the murder in april 2017 caused outrage across the country and divided opinion. some attributes of the crime to drug addiction for others it was murder fueled by anti semitism. learn one thing is beyond doubt the case further increased many jews fear of being attacked. the neocon oil can still not believe what happened to his mother in his apartment outside paris he has boxes full of treasured mementos. how can you kill an 85 year old woman she was old and sick and disabled
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so much hatred. for. his mother had managed to survive the holocaust as a child only to be murdered in old age probably on account of his jewish heritage for the neocon or intolerable. there's nothing worse than human stupidity and racism and anti semitism there are so many issues that are genuinely important you know on their losses but people fight each other over stupid things like religion. paul tibbets is. it something terrible. since she got the. deal feinstein's will never able to clarify the killer's motive sunny cousin tells us as he heads off one small for the bolivia. but nobody can dispute is that the
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number of attacks on jews in france has been on the rise but almost 70 percent in the past year i live. it up with right here is where 93 begins or now in 3 of. the 93rd step is notorious for its concrete housing projects unemployment and fun and crime this is the area where some negroes learn spent almost 40 years as a detective. you should be attacked or jewish boy with a knife here. they stripped him and left him lying there. you want me to they took off his pants and his shirt. and they left him there all night. it all for you know that so many himself received threats while living in paris his car was set on fire in 2013 he and his wife decided to leave france. and it didn't
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seem. i was the victim of an anti semitic attack he said i also read threats from isis to an islamist organizations. these things that were in the store at least to eventually i was scared that my family and i would get into serious trouble. should be because of my foreign to grandstand to some attention to them and didn't want to see me children. that's one of. today's sunny is missing his old friend has some told me the imaam at the mosque in the suburbs. told scene is one of the few in months to speak out openly against growing anti semitism among muslims and fronts. the 2 used to meet every few days. on that the local me and my son was the 1st to recognize the danger for french jews
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. who actually made me told me about young men involved in criminal behavior who said they wanted to rivendell he would. throw a bomb and i asked him if killing jews would allow them to enter paradise. i was shocked i thought things are that bad when jews in france are genuinely in danger well you know. the school sadly it's something a lot of people don't want to hear what they think they're talking about it will play straight into the hands of right wingers but the opposite is true you know i mean you know mostly french people don't hear muslims condemning anti semitism and the murder of me. then i can understand them becoming prejudiced towards muslims. sure but. it's that kind of frank talking that has also put the a man himself in danger you know has police protection after being repeatedly
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threatened and it turns by radical islamists this photo is from 2010 with bodyguards bringing children me to safety after an attempted attack his family now also live abroad due to the danger they face in france. the islamists don't like this camaraderie their sex like the muslim brotherhood and the salafist they don't like seeing any mom reaching out his hand in dialogue. they've broken into my place twice which is why i swap apartments every 2 days the question will move won't be with the group that attacked him was the sheikh here seen collective. the father of violent terrorist palestinian islamism but you know if you long it will be extremely dangerous you know we ask the police for out of. what is the market for 4 months they protested right outside. they broke down the door and came in sight they shouted that we ought to die. it was
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a difficult time. why did it all happen. because i'm a mom reached out to the jewish community. his commitment has earned him derision among certain parts of the muslim community who dismiss him as the imaam of the jews. unperturbed his show is something that he will be attending the meeting the next day bringing together victims of anti-semitic attacks. sami takes a spontaneous decision to pay a visit to the small arab market outside the mosque this is his old patch a place where he still known as the kosher cop for some locals. he's wearing traditional jewish headgear not out of religious conviction but rather out of defiance in response to the attacks in recent years. when
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wearing it as a test to see what happens. i don't think it will bother anyone. so many grew up in algeria and he always felt at home among arabs. that. one vendor becomes aggressive after seeing our camera team filming it's not us but some me that he threatens forming a mock this law with his hands and pointing it at him. what are you doing here. are you threatening me why. i pay for the stand i work here. there's no need to start threatening people because there was. then some me diffuses the situation with something that also helped him in the old days his algerian heritage and fluency in arabic the man is suddenly much friendlier. where were you from constantine. oh algeria.
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the vendor is reluctant to explain his aggressive behavior. it's certainly had nothing to do with some me being jewish. people for the pleasure i don't care if you're jewish which to me everyone's the same with you they will brothers for me to see me. if i preferred this of them home and if i leave them the misspeaking the same language and knowing the same codes makes everything a lot easier with back then when i was in the police speaking arabic was always a big help. plus knowing about islam. what to respect and what is forbidden you. always pick the if it's.
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a mom house and child only is likewise a champion of dialogue. he's come to the main synagogue in paris with a group of young muslims. who could quote it's very brave of you to come here today i imagine it can't be easy for you. but. it's a nice gesture. and there are probably a few people in your neighborhood who aren't too keen on you going to a synagogue and talking to jews i can imagine that's how the response would be. if you know that the young muslim visitors say he's right they know people who would never consider doing such a thing. but as of this is my 1st time going to synagogue i had no idea how it looked on the inside something that. one of the 60 i expected it to be smaller a mole compact. but one over the printer for all policies it's amazing of
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particular significance. it would not. be the. me. if you took on took a little of my really glad to see you all here today. we're used to seeing jews and a lot of christian visitors on our tours for the public. including school groups. and it is all for the coffee but sometimes muslim power. and still give permission for their children to come along.
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by the time so many arrives at his son's apartment for dinner the pits is always cold that is something his family are used to it he was always busy when he was with the police department. these family get togethers have become rare since the parents moved to israel. on. the bradys gaza and his wife maria talk regularly about the pros and cons of also immigration to israel for now at least they stay put because because they don't cover a woman we have jobs here when i would you know which i like the schools. only for school with friends it would be difficult for us adapting to the culture in the schools over there to know this is a division there was a.
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