Friday's attack is the latest in a series of antisemitic assaults on the 39-year-old Macron, the youngest candidate in the history of French presidential elections. Just this February Francois Fillon's conservative Republicans party took to Twitter to bash their political rival, posting a caricature of Macron in which he was depicted in a stereotypical antisemitic manner: Macron's nose was painted into an exaggerated hook, he was pictured clad in a suit, top hat and red sickle with which he was cutting a cigar.The tweet and the attached cartoon were removed from the party's official Twitter handle and Fillon subsequently issued an apology, but the tweet gained a lot of traction worldwide and the party was criticized for the inappropriate and explicitly antisemitic insult.Fillon said in his apology that he understood that the caricature "evoked the images of a dark period of our history and exploited an ideology," referencing the antisemitic propaganda prevalent in France during World War II when the country's Vichy government collaborated with the Nazis and their deportation and extermination of Jews.Reuters contributed to this report.La permanence à Bernay saccagée avec des insultes antisémites. Insupportable ! pic.twitter.com/6Oamdh1yJE
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