French leaders have condemned two racist attacks in which assailants daubed swastikas on the wall of a mosque and tried to set fire to a train carriage used to symbolize the Nazi persecution of the Jews. A petrol bomb was thrown at a carriage which the Nazis used to send Jews from the Drancy transit camp near Paris to death camps in eastern Europe. The carriage, which remains in Drancy as a monument and resembles a goods truck, was not badly damaged. In the other attack, a dozen swastikas, the SS initials of Adolf Hitler's guard and the words "Get out!" were painted on the outer wall of the Grand Mosque in Paris. Both incidents are thought to have taken place on Sunday night and were the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim, Jewish and Christian properties in France. "We have today witnessed several expressions of anti-Semitism and racism ... which are unspeakable and ignominious", Interior Minister Dominque de Villepin said during a visit to Strasbourg in eastern France.