French sacked for anti-Zionism article

A French senior civil servant has been sacked for publishing an anti-Zionism article on a web site.

Bruno Guigue, deputy prefect of the southwestern town of Saintes, noted in an online column this month that Zionist regime was "the only state where snipers shoot down little girls outside their school gates."

The author of several books on the Israli-Palestinian conflict, Guigue warned about the regime's jails "where they only stop torturing on the Sabbath thanks to religious law."

Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie dismissed the official for publishing the humane column.