'Zero tolerance' for anti-Semitic crimes

"French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy vowed "zero tolerance" for anti-Semitic crimes during a visit on Monday to a Jewish school targeted in a weekend acid attack.

"When someone threatens a Jew, they threaten the Republic," Sarkozy said at the Sinai school in northern Paris.

Attackers on Saturday threw three bottles of hydrochloric acid at a part of the school that serves as a synagogue. Worshippers were meeting in the room when one of the bottles of acid landed inside. Two others landed in a courtyard. There were no injuries.

Sarkozy insisted there was "only one strategy," that of "zero tolerance, to not allow anything and to punish people right away in order to avoid having to do so when it's already too late.""

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