16-07-2017 16:44 via yahoo.com

Macron, Netanyahu mark 75 years since Paris roundup of Jews

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined a ceremony in Paris on Sunday marking 75 years since the roundup of 13,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying France's responsibility was a "stark truth".Speaking near the former site of the Velodrome d'Hiver, the indoor cycle track from which the Jews were deported in 1942, Macron said: "It is indeed France that organised" the roundup.Netanyahu's presence at the ceremony sparked controversy, with the Union
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