On Friday and Saturday, a number of Jewish websites in Paris had been vandalized with inexperienced paint, together with the Mémorial de la Shoah, the Tournelles synagogue, and the Agoudas Hakehilos synagogue—all in metropolis’s Jewish quarter—in addition to a 3rd synagogue in a distinct a part of town.
The Jewish Telegraphic Company reported on Sunday that it has been frequent in France for purple paint for use as a protest towards Israel and the continued struggle in Gaza. Inexperienced paint, nevertheless, is new. There was no accompanying message within the graffiti, nor has a gaggle claimed accountability.
“Regardless of the perpetrators and their motivations, these acts don’t solely goal partitions: they violently stigmatize French Jews, their reminiscence and their locations of worship,” French Jewish group CRIF informed JTA. “These paint sprays are a stain on our republican values.”
In response to Le Monde, an open can of inexperienced paint was discovered on the Chez Marianne restaurant, which was additionally vandalized. CCTV footage has proven an individual wearing black committing the vandalism on the Memorial at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday morning.
An investigation, the Paris prosecutor’s workplace informed the AFP, is ongoing.
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, mentioned in a press release, “I condemn these intimidations within the strongest attainable phrases; anti-Semitism has no place in our metropolis and in our Republic. I’ve requested the sanitation division to intervene urgently. We’ll file a grievance.”
In the meantime, Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, mentioned in a press release that he was “appalled” by the acts, and referred to as on French officers to “act swiftly and firmly to carry the perpetrators to justice and to defend the Jewish group towards hatred and assaults of every kind.”
Herzog’s nice grandfather, Rabbi Joel Herzog, helped construct one of many vandalized synagogues.
