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Strasbourg on 29 01 07. -
G.
VARELA / 20 MINUTES
A 58-year-old Pole admitted during his police custody to be the author of a dozen anti-Semitic tags in Mulhouse towards the end of November.
He had justified his gesture by his support for the Palestinian cause.
He appeared in court on Wednesday.
At the hearing, he expressed his "shame", and explained that he had taken action after being "stolen three bikes", according to his comments reported by the newspaper
L'Alsace
.
He was finally sentenced to one year in prison, including three months with probationary suspension, by the Mulhouse court.
A tag on a stele in memory of the chief rabbi
The discovery of tags on the walls of several buildings in the city center had aroused great emotion.
One of the tags had been made on the stele erected in memory of Jacob Kaplan, Chief Rabbi of France from 1955 to 1981 and rabbi in Mulhouse between 1922 and 1929. The Urban Violence Brigade of the Haut-Rhin departmental security had viewed hundreds of hours of video surveillance images to identify the author of the tags, already known to the police for cases of violence.
The court "rightly recognized the racist and anti-Semitic nature of these tags", welcomed Sacha Cahn, lawyer of the Israelite Consistory of Haut-Rhin, who had brought a civil action.
The consistory was awarded 1,000 euros in damages for moral prejudice.
The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) and the SOS Racisme association also each received 600 euros.
The city of Mulhouse, for its part, obtained 5,382 euros in compensation for material damage.
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