Bilderberg Conference participant 1983 On several occasions , Raymond Barre made remarks that were interpreted as antisemitic , or at least supportive of antisemitism . In 1980 , when he was prime minister , a bombing was attempted against the Union Libérale Israélite de France , a synagogue in the rue Copernic , Paris ; however the bomb detonated in the street when the Jews attending shabbat were inside the synagogue , and not when they were out ; but as a result some non-Jewish bystanders were killed . Raymond Barre then famously denounced : A controversy erupted because Raymond Barre 's sentence seemed to imply that the Jews inside the synagogue were neither completely innocent , or were not French
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1980 Paris synagogue bombing
Raymond Barre