Beziers mayor to be tried for Muslim ‘problem’ comments

Robert Menard, who is an ally of France’s anti-immigrant National Front party, will face a charge in a Paris court of incitement to hatred or discrimination. “In a class in the city center in my town, 91 percent of the children are Muslims. Obviously, this is a problem. There are limits to tolerance”, he said in…

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German jailed for Djerba synagogue bomb to appeal, lawyer says

A German al-Qaeda militant jailed for 18 years by a French court for plotting the 2002 suicide bombing of a Tunisian synagogue will appeal, his lawyer said. Christian Ganczarski, 44, a Polish-born convert to Islam, was sentenced late yesterday by a Paris court for the attack on the island of Djerba. “This verdict is wrong…

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