(12 Jan 2009)
1. Wide exterior of Chabad House synagogue, scene of Molotov cocktail attack
2. Sign on exterior of synagogue
3. Two men standing at entrance to synagogue
4. Various of interior damage to the restaurant inside the synagogue complex,
shows blackened walls from smoke and broken glass
5. Tilt-up from Rabbi Isroeil Belinow of the Chabad House Ohr Menahem synagogue, to three unexploded Molotov cocktails embedded in the roof of childrens' playground within the synagogue
6. Unexploded Molotov cocktail embedded in the roof of the playground
7. Close-up of unexploded Molotov cocktail showing charred rim of the bottle
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rabbi Isroeil Belinow, Assistant Rabbi for the Chabad House Ohr Menahem:
"The prayers had just finished and the Rabbi was getting ready to go home, and he went into his office to prepare himself to leave. At that moment he heard some explosion and at that moment he ran out, at the same moment some neighbours also came out and they saw a fire, a little fire coming out from Chabad House and they right away called the police and they saw people running away. At that moment the police came very fast and the fire was neutralised and so they found out that there were some cocktail Molotovs as they call it in France, some bombs filled up with some different products that are flammable."
9. Cut way of Rabbi Isroeil Belinow in his office
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rabbi Isroeil Belinow, Assistant Rabbi for the Chabad House Ohr Manahem:
"I think what has happened in Gaza has helped some hate against Jewish people in France in general, and more specifically in communities where the Arab communities are more important (means populous)."
11. Wide of policeman investigating crime scene outside synagogue, tilt up
12. Wide of France's Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim seated at his desk
13. SOUNDBITE: (French) Gilles Bernheim, France's Chief Rabbi:
"For those of your who are - please forgive the expressions; fragile, delusional, sometimes anti-Jewish, sometimes anti-semitic, and whose acts are the most imbecilic or the craziest; those of you who commit these acts - we deplore them, and we call on the religious community leaders as I am the Chief Rabbi of France, to do everything so that others' religions and their sites are respected."
14. Rabbi Gilles Bernheim at his desk
STORYLINE:
French police said two Molotov cocktails were hurled at a synagogue in a suburb north of Paris on Sunday night amid tensions in France over the violence in Gaza.
The police headquarters of the Seine-Saint-Denis region said the gasoline bombs damaged a restaurant next door but caused no injuries.
A window was shattered in the restaurant and the wall blackened.
Four unexploded Molotov cocktails were found wedged in the thatched roof of the childrens' playground inside the complex, and around 15 more were found outside the complex, also unexploded, according to Isroeil Belinow, Assistant Rabbi at the Chabad House Ohr Manahem synagogue.
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said in a statement that Sunday's night time attack in Saint-Denis was "cowardly and inadmissible."
France's Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim deplored the act and pleaded for peace and tolerance.
It was the latest in a series of anti-Semitic incidents in France since Israel began its offensive in Gaza against Hamas militants December 27.
France has Western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim populations, and Mideast tensions have spilled over into incidents in France in the past.
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