A 65-year-old French Jewish man was convicted in Paris Thursday for mailing bullets to high-profile figures considered sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
Raphael Schoemann, who said he was a Holocaust camp survivor, received a 10-month suspended prison sentence for sending the bullets accompanied by threatening notes reading "the next one won't arrive by the post."
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Those who received the menaces included anti-globalization activist Jose Bove and Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan.
Schoemann was placed on a three-year good-behavior period and ordered to a symbolic damages fee to each of the 10 people to whom he addressed the bullets in 2003, as well as paying 5,000 euros (USD 6,300) in court costs.
'I was exasperated by the hypocrisy of these people'
Two of the victims, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre (who represents - and is engaged to - the jailed terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal) and Gilles Munier, who head a France-Iraq friendship association, have said they intend to appeal to win greater damages.
Schoemann said during his trial last month that he carried out the threats in a bid to make the people targeted "soften their stance" towards Israel.
"I was exasperated by the hypocrisy of these people who take the so-called Palestinian position when in fact it's us here who they are targeting," he said, calling his victims "anti-Semites."
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