Six Jewish youths were physically assaulted outside a Parisian cinema on Saturday, according to the media and French politicians.
Paris’s District 17 Mayor, Geoffroy Boulard on Sunday condemned an antisemitic attack on several minors in his district outside a movie theater in the So Ouest shopping center. Boulard said on social media that he was in contact with the Paris Police about the incident.
“I trust the Police department’s investigators to find the perpetrators of this intolerable attack and the justice system to pronounce the penalties provided for in such circumstances,” Boulard said on X.
Le Figaro reported on Sunday that three individuals approached the six minors, levelled antisemitic insults, and struck two of the victims. The minors then fled the scene to a nearby police position.
The activist body Collectif Nous Vivrons on Sunday condemned the incident, declaring that “every day we witness antisemitic violence in our country.”
'Waiting for actions, not just words'
“So many French people of Jewish faith who every day suffer in their daily lives,” the counter-antisemitism group said. “It’s not just words we’re waiting for. It’s actions.”
The incident came several days after the antisemitic gang-rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl took place in the Parisian suburb of Courbevoie.
Boulard said in a statement on Monday in response to the incident that “The horror of antisemitism directly threatens our republican pact,” explaining that French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed “Discussion hour” on racism and antisemitism on Wednesday was not enough.
Awareness cannot “replace the necessary strengthening of the law to combat this nauseating scourge in all its forms,” Boulard asserted.