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Wednesday 20 February 2019 - 06:44

France: Hundreds attend rally against anti-Semitism in Lyon

Story Code : 778956
A young woman holds placards as she takes part with others in a rally against anti-semitism on February 19, 2019. (AFP)
A young woman holds placards as she takes part with others in a rally against anti-semitism on February 19, 2019. (AFP)

Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls was at the rally, as well as Allan Knoll, the son of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who was murder in her apartment in Paris on March 2018. The murder was described as an anti-Semitic hate crime by local authorities.

"Due to the increase in the acts of violence and anti-Semitic hatred, we cannot stay silenced. It's enough. For how long are we going to let our mothers and brothers getting murdered in the Parisian streets?" Knoll said.

The protest in Lyon comes as part of a number of protests throughout the country against a recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks.
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