A total of 1,242 antisemitic attacks were reported in France during the final three months of last year, a 1,000 percent increase on the same period in 2022.
French police on Wednesday announced the arrest of a man alleged to have carried out a brutal antisemitic assault against a Jewish man as he left Friday night services at a Paris synagogue.
The unnamed assailant is reported to have a prior history of antisemitic acts, police sources told the news outlet Le Point. No further details have yet been released.
The 61-year-old victim, who wears a kippah, had just left the Beth Loubavitch synagogue on rue des Orteaux in the 20th arrondissement of the French capital last Friday evening when he was approached by the assailant. Speaking to broadcaster BFMTV, the victim recalled that the man had insulted him as a “dirty Jew,” before adding: “You kill people in Gaza.”
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