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Sunday, July 22, 2018
French PM says more must be done to return art stolen from Jews during Holocaust
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFrench Prime Minister Edouard Philippe says France must work harder to return art and other cultural property stolen from Jews during the Holocaust, at an event to mark the 76th anniversary of the roundup of Paris’s Jews.
Philippe says over 2,000 objects remain unreturned, with only a handful of objects being returned to the owners or their heirs in the past 17 years.
He also voiced support for legislation that would take a harder line against hate speech online.
The Vel d’Hiv roundup saw the mass arrest of 13,152 French Jews in July 1942, by the Vichy regime.
In 1995, then-president Jacques Chirac was the first French leader to admit his nation was guilty of having assisted in the mass murder of Jews
— with AFP
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