E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.3 page 34 By contrast, the number of anti-Semitic threats compared to 1993 (164). 5 dipped somewhat (143) Certain acts of violence stand out in particular because of the strength of the reaction they aroused within the community: On 18 May, in Rillieux-la-Pape (69), the plaque commemorating the execution of the seven Jewish hostages shot by the Lyon militia on 29 June 1944 was destroyed. This desecration occurred almost a month after Paul Touvier was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in that incident. During the night of 6-7 July, the new commemorative plaque was also destroyed; In October, several deputies from eastern France and Ile-de-France received the revisionist work, “L’holocauste au scanner”, by the Swiss Jürgen Graf, distributed from Belgium. This book was banned in France in December 1994; On 9 November, in Paris, tear-gas was thrown into two cinemas showing the film “Tsahal”, about the Israeli army. Responsibility was immediately claimed by the Union Defence Group (GUD), which intended to “express its solidarity with the Palestinian people, the victim of daily atrocities committed by the Zionist occupation army”. Several members of this group, who were brought in for hearings the next day, were not recognized by witnesses. Like leaflets with racist connotations, anti-Semitic pamphlets circulate with a maximum of discretion, left in letter boxes or sent through the post to persons assumed to belong to the Jewish community. Although revisionist tracts are tending to decline gradually as a result of the many proceedings brought against the negationists, a large number of books and brochures were published in 1994. Arrests Eleven persons were arrested in 1991 for anti-Semitic or anti-Zionist 6 acts, and nine in 1992. The latter included the six skinheads identified as the persons who desecrated the Jewish cemetery in Lyon during the night of 1213 September. There were no arrests in 1993. In 1994, eight arrests were recorded, all followed by legal proceedings. 5 However, these figures do not always reflect the magnitude of certain occurrences. The distribution of a leaflet received by many persons on the same day is reported as one and the same incident, in the same way as the dissemination of a tract to just one recipient. 6 The police do not systematically receive reports of legal proceedings.