The young Jewish woman stabbed on Saturday at her home in Lyon has left the hospital to return home, her lawyer told AFP on Sunday. Her injuries “required stitches”, specifies Me Stéphane Drai, adding that his client had been interviewed by investigators and had filed a complaint while she was still hospitalized.
“As long as the investigations have not been completed, (…) obviously we must act with caution and determination,” he underlines. The judicial police will carry out their investigation and based on that, we will corroborate the anti-Semitic nature or not of the attack.
A swastika on the door
According to her lawyer, the victim, who is currently going through a “divorce”, did not know her attacker. The latter rang her doorbell on Saturday early in the afternoon and without saying a word, “gave her two stab wounds in the abdomen”. A knife was found at the scene, as well as a swastika on the door.
The Lyon public prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday the opening of an investigation into “attempted murder aggravated by the fact that the act could be motivated by an anti-Semitic motive.” No arrests have taken place at this stage.
857 anti-Semitic acts recorded since the start of the conflict
The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) Auvergne Rhône-Alpes “strongly condemned the aggression”, while calling “for both reason and caution” regarding its potential anti-Semitic character.
The announcement of the attack sparked numerous reactions and condemnations, notably from political leaders, as well as from the diocese of Lyon and the rector of the Lyon mosque. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office, requested by the AFP, for its part indicated that it was carrying out “an evaluation of this case, in conjunction with the services seized”.
Since October 7, the date of the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, “857 anti-Semitic acts” have been recorded, “as many in three weeks” as in “the entire past year”, the Minister of Defense said on Tuesday. Interior Gérald Darmanin.