Dinner of CRIF: Hollande will trace his plan against anti-Semitism – The Point

Francois Hollande will trace the axes of the plan against anti-Semitism and racism to be presented in March by the Cabinet, at the dinner of CRIF, the 30th edition on Monday took a strong resonance with soaring d acts against Jews. The Head of State will make the front of the 700 guests of this appointment – very popular but also criticized – the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, chaired since 2013 by Roger Cukierman (already headed from 2001 to 2007) . Three prizes – instead of one usually – will be presented Monday night, one of the young Malian naturalized French who helped Jews in hiding during the hostage Hyper Hide on 9 January.

Born in Lyon in 1943 under Nazi occupation, CRIF is the political representative body of a Jewish community – the first in Europe with some 500 000 people – where the concern continues to grow. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the election campaign, has, to the chagrin of the French authorities urged to join his “home”, Israel. François Hollande will repeat, do we have indicated in his entourage, that “the French Jewish are full citizens, have their place in France” and that “when you attack a Jew, it s attack the Republic itself. ”

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Also expected the Prime Minister Manuel Valls, a dozen ministers, former President Nicolas Sarkozy, the former heads of government, Alain Juppé (UMP) and Edith Cresson (PS), many representatives of worship, do we have indicated in CRIF. At the UMP will also be there Bruno Le Maire, Valérie Pécresse, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. The PS will be represented by Senator David Assouline. Marine Le Pen, described Monday by Roger Cukierman of “perfect” does not mean invited. “It is never detached from the about his father,” said he then told AFP. But he continues to distinguish the ruling that “took no antisemitic about” and his party, the National Front, which is “a creep.”

A distinction that has boosted the lawyer and historian Serge Klarsfeld, Ms. Le Pen who heads a party “that has the passive anti-Semitic pronouncements of the father,” Jean-Marie Le Pen. New: it is no longer at the Pavillon d’Armenonville in the Bois de Boulogne, but in a hotel in Montparnasse that the event takes place, marked by the speech of the President of the Republic. Since the beginning of the year, the attack on the Hyper Hide in Paris to the attacks of Copenhagen, François Hollande spoke regularly against anti-Semitism, the last time after the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Alsace where he visited Tuesday

In keeping with this annual event. – he duly honored as first secretary of the PS, and then until 2012 and once elected to the Elysee – he must return to the plan against racism and anti-Semitism he had sketched in January before the Holocaust memorial in Paris, which will be a Council of Ministers in March communication. Y worked notably Gilles Clavreul since November interministerial delegate to the fight against racism and anti-Semitism, having been a close collaborator of the president. This plan, is it falls at the Elysee, is based on four pillars: “The penalty including a hardening of the repressive arsenal against acts of a racist and anti-Semitic overtones, transmission of republican values ​​throughout life, education, the fight against anti-Semitic and racist complotisme on social networks. ” The head of state should insist on this point, of great concern to the Jewish community and was raised in the United States by the Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, with the heads of major Internet networks.