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Jerusalem Post September 22, 1987 Arnaud Klarsfeld, the 21-year-old son of Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, was seriously beaten up on Sunday afternoon at the annual rally of the extreme right wing Front National party at Le Bourget, near Paris. As Front leader Le Pen stepped on stage to deliver his speech to thousands of his supporters, Klarsfeld followed him, pulled off his sweater revealing a T-shirt with inscriptions reading "Le Pen, Nazi" and shouted "Le Pen, anti-Semite and racist." Security men immediately gagged Arnaud Klarsfeld and dragged him away to a back storage area, cursing him, saying "You Jew, you commie, you wog!" Let's send the dogs on him." Then they took off his shoes and trousers and beat him all over his body. After the beating, the security men let him pass through the crowd in his briefs and barefoot. Other members of the security force caught up with him, slapped him on his face and said, "Let's finish him." He was hit again until a young female member of the Front National managed to calm down the guards. Arnaud made it home badly bruised and half-naked. He was taken to hospital and re- leased a few hours later. A lega complaint was filed against Le Pen's security people. |
