2023-11-10 21:17:36
A new assessment of fraudulent acts, before a solidarity march on Sunday. This Friday, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced on BFMTV a new count of 1,247 anti-Semitic acts since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas. A new increase in acts of hatred a few days before a major march against anti-Semitism, which will mobilize thousands of gendarmes and police officers.
In total, therefore, 1,247 anti-Semitic acts were counted by the authorities between October 7 and this Friday, indicated Gérald Darmanin. 539 people were arrested for acts of the same type, and more than 8,000 reports of anti-Semitic messages and content were made via the Pharos platform, he said. “We must stop hiding our faces, there is anti-Semitism which is very significant in France,” commented the minister.
This is the reason why Gérald Darmanin announced an important security measure for the march against anti-Semitism organized this Sunday in Paris. “More than 3,000 police officers and gendarmes”, including CRS, the BRI, and even intelligence agents, will supervise the parade, which will leave from the Esplanade des Invalides, near the Palais-Bourbon to Place Edmond Rostand, near the Luxembourg Palace, in the south of the capital. In addition to the Parisian march, the Association of Mayors of France also called for rallies “in front of each department prefecture”.
“We have to come together”
Minister Gérald Darmanin still considered it important to participate in this march, a “very good republican initiative” according to him. “I ask all French people to go there. (…) On Sunday, we must say no to anti-Semitism, we must come together,” he insisted.
The Parisian march, without any speeches or platforms planned, is intended to be “a cry of conscience to declare to the face of the world that the French Republic does not allow, and will never allow, anti-Semitism to flourish,” its organizers wrote, the presidents of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet and the Senate Gérard Larcher, in their joint appeal launched on Tuesday.
Many political figures will participate in this march, such as Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, whose Jewish father was deported, as well as former Presidents of the Republic François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy. The announced presence of Marine Le Pen and the National Rally, heir to a National Front with a history marked by anti-Semitism, has however been castigated by the left, and is also embarrassing in the presidential camp.
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