The tags were made on the front of a kosher restaurant. pixarno / stock.adobe.com
The Minister of the Interior said he was “deeply shocked by these unbearable anti-Semitic inscriptions”.
A man was arrested on Saturday and placed in police custody after the discovery of anti-Semitic tags on the window of a kosher restaurant in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine), near Paris, according to a police source.
These anti-Semitic inscriptions were discovered on the front of the kosher sandwich shop “Mr Schnitz” Saturday morning. The municipality of Levallois then decided to surround the establishment with a “palisadeto hide thesefilthy tags“, pending the return of the managers currently on vacation, explained the mayor LR Agnès Pottier-Dumas. The police haveimmediately opened an investigation“From the discovery of the inscriptions, added the city councilor, who claims not to be aware of similar facts in Levallois, where a large Jewish community lives. The prefect of Hauts-de-Seine, Laurent Hottiaux, mentioned on X a “intolerable act“.
CCTV footage from the city has been passed on to police, according to the mayor. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, said to himself on X (ex-Twitter) “deeply shocked by these unbearable anti-Semitic inscriptions“and greeted”the great responsiveness of the police“Having allowed the arrest of”the alleged perpetrator” facts. “Faced with these tags in Levallois, we firmly say that they will not win“, reacted on X Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), castigating “salon anti-Semitism that corrupts minds” as “the anti-Semitism of the street which carries its violence before our eyes“.