Page 13 - TORCH Magazine #9 - Feb 2018

Spate of antisemitic attacks in Paris suburbs
A number of antisemitic attacks in Parisian suburbs during January have raised concern over a new wave of Jew-hatred in the French capital.
A 15-year-old Jewish girl was left bleeding and in shock after having her face slashed by an unidenti ed assailant in the suburb
of Sarcelles. The violent attack was described by the former mayor as a “heinous antisemitic attack”.
The girl was wearing the uniform of her private Jewish school when the attack happened.
In a second incident
in the same suburb, an 8-year-old Jewish boy, who was wearing a kippah, was attacked while on his way to after-school tuition.
Assailants pushed him to the ground and beat him up.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the attack, tweeting: “An 8-year-old boy was attacked today in Sarcelles. Because he was wearing a kippa. Every time a citizen is attacked because of his age, his appearance or his religion, the whole country is being attacked.”
“And it is the whole country that stands, especially today, alongside the French Jews to ght each of these despicable acts, with them and for them,” he added.
The two violent attacks came after a kosher store
in Creteil was destroyed
by arson, which happened just days after the same store was hit by antisemitic gra ti. The arson attack occurred three years to
the day since a deadly Islamist attack on a Jewish supermarket, where four Jews were murdered. The re spread to an adjacent kosher store which was also vandalised the week before.
Israel’s ambassador to France, Aliza Bin Noun, called the re a “shameful provocation.”
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