2023-10-09 19:00:46
An upsurge in a context of attacks. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced this Monday that around “twenty” anti-Semitic acts had been recorded in France over the past 48 hours and the start of clashes between Hamas and Israel after an attack carried out by the Palestinian movement on Saturday morning. .
These acts are of a diverse nature, ranging from “threatening remarks” against Jews and Israel to the display of banners of support for the Palestinians, the Minister of the Interior said on Monday. Gérald Darmanin, who spoke after a meeting with representatives of the Jewish community in France, added that there had been “ten people arrested” in the last 48 hours.
A meeting with Jewish community leaders
The minister spoke at 3 p.m. with the Chief Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, the president of Crif, Yonathan Arfi, and the president of the Central Consistory, Elie Korchia, to discuss the situation.
The Minister of the Interior asked the prefects of France on Saturday to strengthen the security of Jewish community places, with the visible and static presence of law enforcement in front of places of worship, and the reinforcement of the municipal police and the military of Operation Sentinel. The Jewish community has celebrated several holidays since the start of the Jewish new year in mid-September.
Nearly “700 Pharos reports”
The minister, who held a meeting on Sunday morning with all of his services, reiterated “that today there is no clear threat that would affect our Jewish compatriots on national territory”. However, “this weekend we saw around ten anti-Semitic acts, tags, telephone threats, people coming in front of places of worship for example”, he reported on Sunday, specifying that there had been “lots of arrests”.
“To touch a Jew in France is to affect the entire Republic,” continued Mr. Darmanin, assuring the government’s “total support” for the Jewish community and its “absolute firmness” in the face of anti-Semitic acts. He reported that this weekend the Pharos reporting platform had received “more than 700 reports” of comments glorifying terrorism or inciting racial hatred on the internet. “Forty-four reports have already been brought to justice,” added the minister.
Gérald Darmanin warned that he reserved the possibility of using article 40 (to denounce facts or remarks to the courts) and “to initiate dissolution procedures whatever the structures”. “We have had from collectives, associations and sometimes political parties, absolutely despicable comments calling for hatred, intifada, the apology of terrorism,” he said, without citing any names.
Arrests in Paris
As of Saturday, posters were discovered in support of the Palestinians and in Villeurbanne, a large tag demanding “Palestine for the Palestinians” with the signature, the LJR (Revolutionary Youth League), we continued in the same way. source.
In Paris, incidents were noted in front of synagogues such as in the 16th arrondissement where a man was arrested on Sunday for advocating terrorism and racist insults, we learned from another police source. Four people were arrested during the night from Sunday to Monday, in the 7th arrondissement of the capital for the same reason, according to the same source.
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