- Officials in Marseille wanted homeless people to wear triangle ID tags
- Aim was help easily identify beggars and help them in emergencies
- But plan provoked outraged after they were compared to Nazi-style badges
- Human rights groups said they looked like the Star of David worn by Jews
- Government ministers also said that the badges were discriminatory
- Council officials have now been forced to scrap the badges after the backlash
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
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