French security services had watched Toulouse shooter Mohamed Merah since the end of 2009 and judged his behaviour ''worrying'' in late 2011, according to declassified documents seen by AFP.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has urged the Romanian government to demonstrate its commitment to fighting anti-Semitism by having a newly-appointed minister apologize for his Holocaust denial comments and by improving its law against fascist and racist organizations.
Bulgaria released on Thursday video footage of a man it suspects carried out a suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli tourists that killed six people and left three seriously injured.
At least seven passengers reportedly were killed in an explosion on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria in what is being described as a terrorist attack.
The two representative Belgian Jewish communal bodies have set aside recent tensions to issue a statement announcing increased cooperation in the fight against anti-Semitism and “calls for the boycott and delegitimisation of the State of Israel”.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls spoke of his concerns at a “new breed of anti-Semitism in our neighourhoods, in our suburbs”, the day after the two suspects in the case of an attack on a Jewish youth in Lyon were detained.
British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould refuted Israeli accusations of increased anti-Semitism on British university campuses as he insisted that “in the vast majority the student body has more important things to deal with then the Middle East”.
