DIEULEFIT, France ¨C Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists waved flags and unfurled banners on Wednesday as the Tour de France peloton rode through Dieulefit, a southeastern French town honored as a ¡°Town of the Just¡± for sheltering Jewish people during World War II.
A house was draped with Palestinian flags and protesters waved dozens more by the roadside. Cries of ¡°Free Palestine¡± echoed through the town, as the riders cycled through. One banner read ¡°Affamer c¡¯est tuer,¡± meaning ¡°Starving is killing.¡±
Vanessa Huguenin, who runs a family-owned department store in Dieulefit, a town of about 3,000 people, said the action had been planned for nearly two months to take advantage of the Tour¡¯s visibility.
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