Jewish homes in Paris are marked with the Star of David: dozens of homes affected

The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, took stock this Monday: since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, there have been 819 antisemitic acts in the French countryalmost double those that occurred in the entire year 2022. This Tuesday, the number was updated to 857.

“There’s a latent antisemitism in the world and in Europe in particular,” Darmanin lamented on the French television channel BFMTV. The country welcomes the largest Jewish community on the continent.

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Among the hundreds of cases there is now a new attack against the Jewish community: the streets of several districts of Paris have appeared marked with dozens of stars of David in bluewhich marked the homes of Jewish families.

The marks have surprised the neighbors, who rushed to call the authorities when they discovered them in front of their homes this morning. French authorities estimate at least 60 homes affected. “The city of Paris condemns these anti-Semitic acts with the utmost firmness and will not let them pass,” the City Council said in a statement. The City Council has reported the facts to the prosecutor’s office to “identify, prosecute and condemn with the greatest firmness the perpetrators of these acts.”

In the city, The mayors have warned of marks in the X, XIII, XIV, XV and XVIII districts. The mayor of the 14th arrondissement, Carine Petit, has condemned these “anti-Semitic and racist acts” that “recall the procedures of the 1930s and the Second World War that led to the extermination of millions of Jews.” In the XV and XVIII districts, government teams have filed complaints about these attacks, as announced by their mayors, Anthony Samama and Eric Lejoindre, on their social networks.

Municipal services have already mobilized and have begun to cover the graffiti and to restore the facades of the buildings.

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The stars of David have also appeared in other places in the Île-de-France regionincluding Saint-Ouen and Aubervilliers (north of Paris).

“It is the first time that we are facing an operation that seems organized“, declared this Tuesday Nicolas Nordman, deputy of the Paris City Council and in charge of security, on French television. “It is necessary to determine who has committed these acts to persecute and condemn them“, has added. In the last three weeks, The French Ministry of the Interior has made 425 arrests related to anti-Semitic acts in the country.

“This wave of hatred that increases and is displayed publicly It’s everyone’s problem“, has assured the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra), on its social networks. “It is not the first time after the Second World War, but it is of an unprecedented magnitude and damages the social fabric, national cohesion and the values ​​of the (French) Republic,” he added.