Source: Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) – Leaders of the far-right National Front and hard-left France Unbowed movement met booes on Wednesday when they joined a march in honor of a Holocaust survivor killed in a suspected anti-Semitic attack and were eventually forced to leave it.
An official holds a white rose as he attends a gathering, organised by the CRIF, in memory of Mireille Knoll, in Paris, France, March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
The National Front’s Marine Le Pen and France Unbowed’s Jean-Luc Melenchon had defied a prominent Jewish group’s wishes by taking part in the march to honor Mireille Knoll.
The 85-year-old was found dead with 11 stab wounds at her apartment in a working-class district of Paris on Friday. The apartment was set ablaze after the attack and her body badly burnt. Police suspect that Knoll’s Jewish religion was a motive for the killing.
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