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Paris.- French President Emmanuel Macron called this Friday for a sentence of "mandatory disqualification" for all public officials in the country who are convicted of "antisemitic, racist or discriminatory acts or statements."
"Too often the sentences pronounced against the perpetrators of antisemitic crimes and offenses seem minuscule," Macron said during the tribute to Ilan Halimi, a young Jew kidnapped and tortured to death exactly 20 years ago.
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The president warned against the entrenchment of antisemitic acts and assured that they are more serious when committed by public officials, because politicians, he said, "must be sentinels of the Republic". He assured that he will ask the Government to bring to Parliament a tightening of sanctions against this type of act and there should be included the automatic penalty of disqualification for public office. Macron took advantage of the tribute to Halimi to make this announcement after antisemitic acts grew exponentially in France following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023 and the subsequent Israeli offensive in Gaza. For the president, it is now the extreme left that "uses the mask of anti-Zionism" to attack Jews as the extreme right did in the past. After his speech, an oak tree was planted in the gardens of the Élysée in memory of the young man murdered in 2006, a strong symbol, because numerous trees planted in his honor in different parts of the country have been vandalized.
