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Anti-Semitic graffiti prompts Sarkozy's son to take legal action
By Reuters
Tags: Jewish World, France 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's son Jean Sarkozy has taken legal action over anti-Semitic graffiti in the Paris suburb where he is a local councilor, the website of the daily Le Parisien said on Thursday.

The website said Jean Sarkozy had seen the words "Sarkozy, thieving jews" sprayed on the wall of a court building in Neuilly-sur-Seine and had filed a complaint with local police. It said the same tag was sprayed in three other locations.

No comment was immediately available from Sarkozy's office.
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The complaint follows a controversy over suggestions in a satirical magazine that Jean Sarkozy, 21, was preparing to convert to Judaism following his engagement to a member of the Jewish family that controls electronics retailer Darty.

The comments, in the magazine Charlie Hebdo, led to the sacking of the columnist responsible and a bitter spat in the media among French intellectuals and left-wing politicians over anti-Semitism and freedom of speech.

Jean Sarkozy became engaged in June to Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, whose family owns one of France's biggest electronics retailers. He has denied he is planning to convert to Judaism.

The second son of the French president, Jean Sarkozy was elected local councillor in his father's former political fiefdom earlier this year and has taken over leadership of the centre-right UMP party group on his regional council.


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