E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.3 page 33 Nevertheless, despite the increase in the last two months of 1992, anti-Semitic violence did not reach the levels of 1991. The drop in the number of threats was even more marked: 184 in 1991 and 109 in 1992. In 1993, anti-Semitic violence continued to abate: 17 incidents were reported, 3 of them attributable to Arab-Islamic groups. However, acts of intimidation, leaflets and other anti-Semitic graffiti, were on the rise. In 1993, 164 “threats” - 152 anti-Semitic “threats” and 12 leaflets and threats denying the genocide - were reported, as against 109 for the previous year. This form of violence stabilized in 1994, with 19 incidents as against 17 in 1993. As usual, Jewish buildings and places of worship were the main targets, including the synagogues in Puteaux (92) and Pantin (93), and a cemetery in Fegersheim (67), in which 58 tombstones were overturned and slabs broken, the Beth Menahem school in Villeurbanne (69), a company in Pantin (93) specializing in Kosher products and a vehicle belonging to a Lubavitch centre in Nice (06), which was set on fire. Six other incidents targeted members of the Jewish community: On 2 March, in Epinay-sur-Seine (93), two persons leaving the synagogue were hit by beer bottles thrown by two individuals hiding on a footbridge; On 15 March, in Marseille (13), a high school student wearing a yarmulke was assaulted on a bus by six Maghrebis; On 11 April, in Villeurbanne (69), a merchant was bludgeoned by three persons who then fled, dropping behind them neo-Nazi stickers from the United States chapter of NSDAP-AO; On 5 June, in Paris, a Pole under the influence of alcohol attempted to throw a boy wearing a yarmulke onto the tracks in the Jaurès underground station. When he was arrested, he said he had “wanted to kill a Jew”; On 15 July, in Créteil (94), youths of African origin threw stones at the oratory, during the service; On 5 August, in Marseille (13), the female manager of a petrol station attacked and gassed two clients (15 days of sick leave), after making anti-Semitic insults. Eight acts were committed by Arab-Islamic groups, some in retaliation for the massacre of several dozen Palestinians on 25 February 1994 at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron (Israel). The signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords also led to renewed anti-Semitic manifestations, especially of anti-Zionism.

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