A/50/476 English Page 28 The second event was the sending by the Swiss Jürgen Graf to several members of Parliament from the departments of Est and Île-de-France of his book which denies the existence of the holocaust, L’holocauste au scanner, distributed from Belgium. The circulation of the book in France was banned in December 1994. 90. Like racism in general, anti-Semitism is particularly developed in the Paris region, where there is a large Jewish community and skinheads are very active. 44/ Alsace and Lorraine, too, are especially affected, owing to a hard core of neo-Nazi militants belonging to the Parti Nationaliste Français Européen (PNFE). 91. In 1994 the police questioned eight suspects and charges were brought in every case. 92. According to official statistics, anti-Semitism increased in Germany by 60 per cent in 1994, with 1,040 incidents reported, including 56 violent acts. The most serious incident was the destruction of the Lübeck synagogue by fire on 25 March. This criminal act was the first to be committed against a Jewish place of worship since the Second World War. Four men were convicted and sentenced to two and a half to four and a half years of prison for the act. The deputy mayor of Lübeck, who had protested against the leniency of the judges towards the men, escaped being injured by a letter bomb which police believe to have been sent from Austria by an extreme right-wing organization. 93. On 8 May 1995, 50 years to the day after the surrender of the Nazi regime, the synagogue, which had just been rebuilt, was the target of another fire bomb attack. A few days earlier, 103 headstones had been overturned in a Berlin cemetery where victims of Nazism were buried. 45/ 94. In 1994, more than 90 per cent of anti-Semitic incidents involved graffiti and the distribution of propaganda and insignia of banned organizations. Three cases of bodily injury and more than 40 incidents involving desecration of monuments, including acts of vandalism at the former Buchenwald concentration camp, were recorded. 46/ 95. In Austria, Jörg Haider, leader of the Freiheits Partei Österreich (FPÖ), an extreme right-wing party, speaking during a parliamentary debate on recent bombing attacks against Roma, sought to minimize the persecution of Jews in the concentration camps, which he described as "punishment camps". 47/ 96. Anti-Semitic incidents are rare in Hungary. Mention should be made, however, of the many swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti which appeared during the electoral campaign. In March a Jew was stabbed in the thigh by two skinheads in the Budapest underground. 97. In Ukraine, Jews, who number more than 500,000, are the second largest ethnic minority in the country. Jews are worried about expressions of anti-Semitism, especially the rise of an ultra-nationalist group in the western part of the country which has made the spread of anti-Semitism one of its aims. The group has not yet won approval as an official party at the national level, but has been able to operate openly in the city of L’viv. Mention should also /...