This is why he went to Créteil, a suburban city southeast of Paris. Richard Prasquier noted that almost one third of the Jewish population in France lives in the seven administrative regions around Paris, "and no doubt more than a third in terms of youth and dynamism".
Jews are an integral part of this country, and they share in the good and bad times. France was the first country to give Jews full citizenship, and after the Dreyfus Affair and Vichy, in 1995 the President Jacques Chirac formally acknowledged the responsibility of the French government in Jewish persecution. Also, in 2007, the French Righteous were brought into the Panthéon, the Paris burial place for the heroes of the Republic .
The CRIF President declared with great conviction "France is not an anti-Semitic country, even if anti-Semitic acts take place here, and this is certainly not the same thing".
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