A/50/476 English Page 27 where he drowned. Lastly, in August, Sid Mohamed Amiri, a young man with dual French and Algerian nationality, was beaten up in an abandoned quarry in Marseille by three police officers, who, according to the victim, attempted to kill him and robbed him of 2,000 francs. The three police officers were immediately suspended and charged with assault and battery and premeditated robbery. 84. In addition, in 1994, seven mosques were targets of numerous destructive acts (the throwing of Molotov cocktails and arson). 40/ 85. One particular phenomenon was really taken into account only in 1994. This relates to attacks against North Africans in Corsica. Twenty violent acts causing the death of a Moroccan (killed in Ajaccio on 4 February) and injuring five persons (also Moroccan) were recorded in 1994. "These manifestations, which hardly evoke any reaction, are becoming commonplace." 41/ 86. In Italy, this form of racism, although not as widespread as in France, is partly the work of police officers. For example, the Tunisian Said Alaoui allegedly was savagely beaten during an identity check in the street by four plain-clothes police officers, then taken in an automobile to an office of the municipal police. 42/ A witness of the incident, Biagio Imposimato, was allegedly threatened with loss of his job if he "said too much" and then was struck and insulted. The police officers added that it was people like him "who want Moroccans in Italy". He was accused of incitement to disobey the law and then released. F. Anti-Semitism 87. Anti-Semitism remains a problem in many countries and is particularly sensitive to geopolitical developments in the Middle East. The signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements triggered a recrudescence of anti-Semitic acts. The Institute for Jewish Affairs warned in its annual report for 1995 against growing anti-Semitism among radical Muslims in Algeria, Jordan and Egypt, and singled out for special mention Hizb al-Tahrir, an organization with headquarters in London, which has called for the killing of Jews. 88. Anti-Semitic violence in France has ebbed slowly since 1991, levelling off in 1994, when 19 violent acts were recorded, as against 17 in 1993. 43/ These acts were directed for the most part against synagogues, but members of the French Jewish community were also targeted. Some of these acts were committed by members of the far right linked to the United States neo-Nazi group NSDAP-AO and also by isolated individuals motivated by a simple-minded anti-Semitism not based on any particular ideology. Eight of these acts were allegedly carried out in reprisal for the massacre of several dozen Palestinians on 25 February 1994 at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in the West Bank. 89. Two events in particular have caused considerable agitation among the Jewish community. The first was the double desecration, in May and July 1994, of a plaque at Rillieux-la-Pape honouring the memory of the seven Jews killed by the Lyons militia in 1944 on orders from Paul Touvier. In April, Paul Touvier became the first French citizen to be convicted of a crime against humanity. /...