Paris, France: Antisemitic Shirts on Sale in Parisian Clothes Shop
August 12, 2008
French police arrested the owner and an employee of a Paris store discovered to be selling T-shirts with antisemitic slogans. The store, located in the Belleville area of Paris, was selling T-shirts with printed slogans in German and Polish reproduced from 1940’s anti-Semitic slogans, prohibiting the Jews of Lodz, in Poland, to enter the town's public park and saying: "Jews are forbidden from entering the park."
The National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), a community organization that monitors anti-Semitic incidents in France, made the complaint to the police after a journalist from the news agency Agence France Press (AFP) found five of the grey, sleeveless T-shirts on sale in the store early on Tuesday. When the journalist returned shortly afterwards they had been removed.
The store assistant said they had been bought by a single customer and that she did not know the meaning of the inscriptions.
Sources: JPost.com, 08-13-2008; EJPress.org, 08-12-2008; News.bbc.co.uk, 08-12-2008; Netzeitung.de, 08-13-2008
