ZGram - 5/23/2002 - "Israeli Embassy burned down"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

May 23, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I am amazed this story does not seem to play in the major media. 
What's going on again?

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Israeli Embassy In Paris Burns -

Fire Termed Accidental
BBC

5-21-2

Several firemen have been injured in a fire which gutted the Israeli 
embassy in Paris.

More than 30 fire engines were called to tackle the blaze, which 
broke out in the early hours of the morning.

French police said the fire was accidental, and ambassador Eli 
Barnavi said it had probably been caused by an electrical fault.

The five-storey building had been undergoing renovation when the fire 
started, at around 0200 local time (midnight GMT). It was 
extinguished several hours later.

The French Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, went to the scene, 
along with Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy and the Mayor of Paris.

"Everything that concerns Israel is serious in the period we are now 
in," Mr Raffarin said.

"We're aware of that and we stand together."

President Chirac also expressed his concern to Mr Barnavi.

The ambassador said firefighters arrived on the scene within minutes, 
but the flames spread rapidly, destroying four of the five floors of 
the embassy.

"It's tragic, tens of years of work disappearing under our eyes," he said.

He added that Foreign Ministry officials would arrive in Paris on 
Thursday, but that French police would carry out the investigation.

France has been the scene of a number of attacks on synagogues and 
other Jewish institutions over the past few months.

Mr Barnavi told French radio on 15 April that he had received a 
Magnum revolver bullet through the post.

(Source: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_2003000/2003698.stm )