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Article: National Front insists it didn't desecrate Jewish cemetery
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- Jerusalem Post
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- November 12, 1995
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News agencies, CARPENTRAS, France
Jerusalem Post
11-12-1995
WHEN vandals desecrated a Jewish cemetery in a southern town, impaling an elderly man's corpse on an umbrella, the extreme-right National Front immediately fell under suspicion.
Five years later, investigators with no hard evidence against the party led by Jean-Marie Le Pen - an avowed antisemite - have quietly dropped it as a suspect.
It's the quiet part that angers the Front. Yesterday, about 10,000 of its members and supporters rallied to demand that the government publicly exonerate them in an incident that horrified the nation.
"The National Front has come to proclaim its innocence," Le Pen thundered in Carpentras, the ...