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Thursday, July 31, 2014
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
French JDL denies group banned
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSerge Salfati, a leader of France’s Jewish Defense League dismisses as rumors reports that officials are considering banning his far-right group, whose counterparts in the United States and Israel are designated as terrorist groups.
On Wednesday, the left-leaning Liberation daily reported that an unnamed official from France’s interior ministry said that the ministry was looking into the possibility of banning the group — a report Salfati denies.
“There are rumors that officials are looking into the possibility of maybe banning [JDL],” Serge Salfati tells JTA.
“While the reports are rumors at this point, there is a chance the government will seek action against LDJ to demonstrate an evenhanded approach to Arabs and Jews,” Salfati says.
— JTA
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