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Macron decries anti-Semitism on 80th anniversary of WWII roundup of Jews

President Macron listens to Shoah survivor Marcel Sztejnberg (2nd L) Regine Lipp (R) during the inauguration of the Pithiviers station as a new Shoah memorial site. Eight convoys left the station for the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. AFP - CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON

French President Emmanuel Macron warned against anti-Semitism and historical revisionism on Sunday as he commemorated victims of the Holocaust on the 80th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup of Jewish families. "Anti-Semitism is not over and we should say so," he said.

On July 16-17, 1942, close to 13,000 people were taken to the Winter Velodrome, the Vél d'Hiv, in Paris before being sent on to concentration camps across Europe.

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