In 2005, Chirac was president when riots engulfed French suburbs and French voters delivered him a humiliating personal defeat by voting no to the European constitution for which he had campaigned.

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Pierre Aidenbaum, who personally welcomed the participants and encouraged their discussion of this topic - one made all the more urgent in light of the recent, destructive riots in the French capital and elsewhere in the country during the Fall of 2005 and violent manifestations of rising anti-semitism in Western Europe.

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He spoke of the disturbing ideological alliances that underlie large parts of the riots against newly-elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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