NAZI VICTIMS
Macron accepts ‘stark truth’ of historic Jewish persecution in France
Paris — French President Emmanuel Macron marked 75 years since the round-up of 13,000 Jews to be sent to Nazi death camps, calling France’s responsibility a "stark truth" at a ceremony attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking on Sunday near the former site of the Velodrome d’Hiver, the indoor cycle track from which the Jews were deported in 1942, Macron said: "It is indeed France that organised" the round-up. "Not a single German" took part. Netanyahu’s presence at the ceremony sparked controversy, with the Union of French Jews for Peace calling the invitation "shocking" and "unacceptable". The organisation accused the Israeli government of "usurping the memory of the victims of Nazism to make people believe that Israel represents all the world’s Jews". The ceremony marked the day when officials of the Vichy regime in Nazi-occupied France began rounding up 13,152 Jews and taking them to the Velodrome d’Hiver. Fewer than 100 of those who were detained and then ...
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