France grapples with a surge in antisemitism as at least 10 Jewish homes and businesses, including a synagogue in Rouen, are vandalized with swastikas and hateful graffiti. The attacks coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Paris terror attacks.
At least 10 Jewish homes and businesses around Paris and a synagogue in the northern French city of Rouen have been defaced, according to police. The acts of vandalism came as France marked 10 years since the Paris terrorist attacks that shook the country. A swastika and a graffiti reading 'Jews pedophiles, rapists to be gassed' on a wall in front of the synagogue.
Buildings in the Parisian suburbs of Vincennes, Saint-Mandé and Fontenay-sous-Bois, many located near the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where the attacks took place a decade ago, were affected on Sunday and Monday, police said. A rabbi's home and a synagogue in Rouen were also targeted with antisemitic messages and swastikas scrawled on the buildings. The synagogue that was vandalised in Rouen was previously a target of attempted arson in May last year and was also sprayed with graffiti in December during Hanukkah.The messages found on the synagogue walls on Monday called for Jewish people to be 'gassed,' according to Natacha Ben Haïm, the president of the Israelite Religious Association of Rouen, who manages the synagogue. Ben Haïm has filed a lawsuit against the perpetrators, who remain unknown, for 'public provocation of hatred'. 'All these attacks are taking place in a context of rising antisemitism in France,' Ben Haïm told CNN. 'I don't want to stay quiet, I want this to be known.' In the country home to Europe's largest Jewish community, the number of antisemitic incidents recorded in 2023 almost quadrupled in a year, with 1676 cases reported, according to data from the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France. 'Discovering these tags in Rouen, it's a double symbol, a symbol because it falls on the anniversary of the Hyper Cacher attack, and a symbol because it targets the Rouen synagogue, which was the victim of arson a few months ago,' said the president of Representative Council of Jewish institutions in France, Yonathan Arfi, on French radio RTL on Tuesday
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