An Irishman who admitted threatening to ‘put a bullet’ in the head of a Jewish woman in France has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence.
Patrick O’Brien, 60 and originally from Dublin, caused shock and outrage after he was filmed confronting a couple in a hypermarket in Avignon in August.
The Australian tourists, who have asked not to be named, also accused him of making anti-Semitic remarks referring to the Second World War including: ‘I’m sorry Hitler didn’t finish the job’.
Both victims were from a family who went through the Holocaust, and some relatives were murdered by the Nazis at the
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