Jules Molle (16 February 1868,

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- 8 January 1931) was a

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politician. He was the founder of the

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political party, the mayor of

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and the publisher of an Anti-Jewish newspaper, Le Petit Oranais, which ran for years with a swastika on its front and openly called for violence and persecution against

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. His victory in the 1921 mayoral election was followed by street violence against Jews. After he was arrested in the year 1925 on charges of incitement to violence, pro-Molle rioters attacked and pillaged the Jewish quarter in Oran. By the time army forces had quelled the violence, two Jews had been killed and fifty wounded. Molle died from a

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in 1931.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Molle, Jules 1868 births 1931 deaths People from Aubenas French people of colonial Algeria Democratic and Social Action politicians Members of the 14th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of Parliament for French Algeria Mayors of places in Algeria Antisemitism in French Algeria 1920s riots 1925 in Algeria 19th-century French physicians 20th-century French physicians French military personnel of World War I