Anti-Semitism in France: is enough being done?

The murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor in Paris heightens fears in Jewish communities

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French authorities are treating the murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor in Paris as a potential hate crime, the latest incident in a disturbing pattern of violence against the country’s Jewish population.

Mireille Knoll, who narrowly escaped a mass round-up of French Jews in 1942, was stabbed to death and set on fire in her apartment in the city’s 11th arrondissement on Friday.

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