 Amongst those initially held was Serge Lecanu, who had led the "Fédération professionnelle indépendante de la police" (FPIP), a far right police trade union.In 1990, Michel Lajoye, a PNFE member since 1988, received a life sentence for dropping a bomb in a café owned by Arab immigrants.On 10 May 1990, a Jewish cemetery at Carpentras was desecrated, leading to public uproar and a protest demonstration in Paris, attended by 200,000 persons, including French President François Mitterrand.