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On May 14, 1990, the Capontra incident occurred in France
On this day, 35 years ago, May 14, 1990 (April 20, 1990, the Capontra Incident occurred in France. On May 14, 1990, 200,000 people held a march in Paris, where people angrily condemned anti-Semitic crimes committed by a small group of people. The ruling President Mitterrand, Prime Minister Rockar, and leaders of parliament and parties all participated in the march. An elderly Jewish man said that his family died in a concentration camp. After the war, he lived alone for decades and never participated in political activities. Today, in the face of racist provocations, he can no longer remain silent. The incident occurred at a Jewish cemetery in the southern French city of Capontra from May 9 to 14, 1990. The two women who visited the tomb found that the former solemn cemetery was a terrible scene: tombstones were staggering, broken marble was scattered, and the body of an old man who had not been buried was pulled out of the coffin and poked with a sun umbrella... There were as many as 34 tombs that were smashed. On the 14th, three more cemeteries were found desecrated in Paris and other places, and the vandals even wrote fascist marks on the tombstones. After the incident, there was an uproar across France. For several days in a row, relevant pictures have been continuously broadcast on television, and newspapers have kept making remarks condemning the extreme racism and anti-Semitic crimes committed by a small group of people. President Mitterrand called it a "despicable and obscene act" and an "unbelievable tragic incident" and went to the home of Jewish Archbishop Joseph Setruk to "find out and punish the murderer." Capontra is a city with a concentrated concentration of Jews in France. On May 14, the Jewish Archbishop presided over a religious service attended by tens of thousands of Jews at the cemetery to commemorate the victims. Similar activities were held in other French cities. A young man said that criminals can spoil brothers and sisters and smash tombstones, but they cannot stop the wave of anti-racism. Since 1980, there have been nine similar incidents in France. French public opinion generally believes that it is no accident that the Capontra incident occurred in France. Since the 1980s, anti-Semitism in France has developed with the emergence of racism, and neo-Nazism has emerged. The far-right organization "National Front" led by Le Pen is a representative in this regard. They openly advocate "France for the French" and oppose immigration. Public opinion also believes that this exclusion of Jews is also the result of the development of French social crisis. Young people are troubled by problems such as unemployment crisis, disparity between rich and poor, rising prices, deteriorating public security, and insecure welfare, and attempt to seek sustenance from the Nazi spirit. They complain that immigration brings unemployment, are extremely hostile to foreigners, and drive a small number of young people onto the path of neo-Nazism.


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