You are suspected of shouting anti-Semitic slogans in the Paris metro on October 31st. A video of the scene spread online. In it you can hear several people shouting, among other things, “We are Nazis and proud of it.” The Paris prefecture, the RATP transport authority and the French Anti-Racism League reported the incident.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the French judiciary has opened investigations into 330 cases of anti-Semitic acts and justification of terrorism. So far, around 20 verdicts have been handed down, judicial circles said on Monday. According to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, French authorities have recorded almost 1,250 anti-Semitic acts since October 7th. More than 500 people were taken into custody.
At a meeting with representatives of religious communities on Monday, President Emmanuel Macron called for young people in particular to be made aware of the issue. “The president wants the message to reach them, and of course we are helping,” said Jewish consistory chairman Elie Korchia.
According to the Interior Ministry, more than 180,000 people took part in rallies against anti-Semitism across the country on Sunday. In Paris alone, more than 100,000 people took to the streets. The chairmen of the National Assembly and the Senate called for the demonstration under the motto “For the Republic, against anti-Semitism”.
The participation of the right-wing populist Marine Le Pen sparked debates. The left-wing populists boycotted the march on the grounds that they did not want to demonstrate alongside Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN).
In addition to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande and the president of the Jewish umbrella organization Crif, Yonathan Arfi, also took part in the demonstration. President Emmanuel Macron decided not to take part, but in a “Letter to the French” denounced an “unbearable resurgence of unbridled anti-Semitism.” “A France in which our Jewish fellow citizens are afraid is not France,” Macron wrote.
