French police were questioning a shop owner and her assistant in Paris after tracing T-shirts carrying anti-semitic slogans to their store, EJP reports.
 
Officers picked up the two women late Tuesday after reports that their store, in the Belleville district of the capital, was selling T-shirts with the phrase “Jews forbidden from entering the park” printed in German and Polish, in a reference to the Nazi-era Jewish ghetto of Lodz in Poland.
 
Paris prosecutors Tuesday opened an investigation for “incitation to racial hatred by inscriptions with anti-Semitic character” following a complaint filed by the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), a group monitoring anti-semitic acts in France, which handed one of the T-shirts to police.
 
Ivestigators are now trying to track down who manufactured, distributed and imported the T-shirts, but the information taken from the label — “Introfancy IF” and “Nought restrict” — has offered no clues.
 
The inscriptions on the T-shirts– “Juden EINTRITT in die PARKANLAGEN VERBOTEN” in German, and “Zydom wstep do parku wzbronionyio” in Polish — are reproduced from 1940 banners targeting the Jews of Lodz, in central Poland, prohibiting them to penetrate in the parks of the city.
 
Ninety-five percent of the 200,000 Jews who were held in the ghetto later died in concentration camps.

(Source: EJP Press)