First Secretary of the Socialist Party of France (1997-2008).

[in a speech, July 22, 2012, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the deportation of 13,152 Parisien Jews] Anti-Semitism is not an opinion, it is an abhorrence. For that reason, it must first of all be faced directly. It must be named and recognized for what it is. Wherever it manifests itself, it will be unmasked and punished.