The police custody of the man arrested on Saturday after the discovery of anti-Semitic tags on the front of a kosher restaurant in Levallois-Perret, near Paris, was lifted on Sunday at the end of the day, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said on Monday. , requested by AFP. “The police custody was lifted without prosecution for lack of sufficient evidence allowing [d’incriminer le suspect] at this stage,” the prosecution said. Anti-Semitic inscriptions were discovered on Saturday morning on the front of a kosher sandwich shop, “Mr. Schnitz”.
Police opened an investigation
“Investigations are continuing to consider all avenues of elucidation”, added the prosecution, which underlines that the investigation, entrusted to the Territorial Security of Hauts-de-Seine, “is the subject of particular attention” . The police “opened an investigation in the wake” of the discovery of the inscriptions, said Saturday the mayor LR Agnès Pottier-Dumas, who assured not to have known of similar facts previously in Levallois, where a large Jewish community lives.
The municipality had decided to surround the establishment with a “palisade” to hide these “filthy tags”, pending the return of the managers currently on vacation, added the city councilor. CCTV footage from the city has been passed on to police, according to the mayor. The tags provoked strong indignation in the political class. The minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmaninhad said on X (ex-Twitter) “deeply shocked by these unbearable anti-Semitic inscriptions” and had praised “the great reactivity of the police officers” having allowed the arrest of the “presumed author” of the facts.