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Published on 2 January 2016
French Jews Plan Ceremony at Kosher Market Where 4 Slain
Published in Forward December 23, 2015
CRIF, the umbrella group of France’s Jewish communities, called on the general public to attend a commemoration on the first anniversary of the slaying of four Jews in a Paris kosher supermarket.
CRIF made the call in a statement published Monday on its website, which said the event planned for January 9, 2016, at the Hyper Cacher supermarket on Paris’ eastern outskirts was also meant to commemorate the 13 people who died in terrorist attacks committed by Islamists on Jan. 7 and Jan. 8.
“Let us show up in large numbers to honor the memory of the 17 victims of the January killings,” CRIF wrote. The Hyper Cacher murders followed the slaying of a police officer the previous day by the same shooter and the killing of 12 the day before that at the office of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.
In its statement, CRIF added: “A year has passed, a testing year for France, for all those affected by terrorist fanaticism. We will never forget the terrible month of January 2015, for which a whole nation mourned. In this context, CRIF, with the participation of the authorities, is organizing a gathering of unity and republican values,” CRIF wrote in reference to the core values of the French Republic... Read more.