Accompanied by the mayors of many of Paris’s 20 districts, by City Hall staff and municipal politicians, Bertrand Delanoë recalled his close links and good relations with the Jewish community.
Richard Prasquier, President of CRIF, in his welcome speech reminded Bertrand Delanoë that he was the mayor of Europe’s largest Jewish community. “Down through the centuries of France’s history, the capital has undergone many deep transformations, and its Jewish population has been in continual movement,” said the President of CRIF, recalling that Paris had been marked by the arrival of Jews from Alsace, then those from Central Europe between the two world wars, and finally by the North African Jews who arrived in the 1960’s. “Today, the Jewish community has been renewed and is capable of excellent dialogue,” added Richard Prasquier.
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