Suspect arrested after attack on French rabbi

A young antheral was arrested connected suspicion of attacking a rabbi successful the French metropolis of Orleans, implicit the weekend, prompting Emmanuel Macron to picture anti-Semitism arsenic a “poison”.

The attacker allegedly deed the rabbi of Orleans connected the head, spot him connected the enarthrosis and insulted him arsenic helium was walking backmost from synagogue with his nine-year-old lad connected Saturday afternoon, a root told AFP.

Several sources said Rabbi Arie Engelberg was deed connected the feature and enarthrosis blade.

Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren, the Orleans prosecutor, said constabulary were checking the individuality of the idiosyncratic successful custody since helium did not person documents connected him erstwhile helium was detained.

Another root with cognition of the lawsuit said the fishy arrested connected Saturday nighttime was known nether astatine slightest 3 identities, 1 Moroccan and 2 Palestinian.

France is location to the largest Jewish colonisation extracurricular Israel and the United States, arsenic good arsenic the largest Muslim assemblage successful the European Union.

Several EU nations person reported a spike successful “anti-Muslim hatred” and “anti-Semitism” since the Oct 7 massacre, according to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

Andre Druon, a Jewish assemblage person successful Orleans, said determination had not been immoderate incidental successful Orleans since Oct 7 “apart from immoderate graffiti” earlier the “very violent” onslaught connected the rabbi.

He said the rabbi was profoundly shaken erstwhile helium recounted his ordeal to the assemblage connected Sunday.

Mr Druon said an idiosyncratic “started filming” the rabbi and past attacked the spiritual person erstwhile helium asked him to halt recording.

Yann Dhieux, a locksmith, said helium had intervened with his arms wide and helped halt the assault, but that it was shocking to spot the rabbi attacked successful beforehand of his young son.

Zero tolerance

Mr Macron voiced solidarity with the rabbi’s household and each French radical of the Jewish faith.

“Anti-Semitism is simply a poison,” helium wrote connected X.

Gideon Saar, Israel’s overseas minister, said helium was “shocked” by the onslaught and called for “zero tolerance for anti-Semitism”.

France recorded immoderate 1,570 anti-Semitic acts past year, according to the country’s interior minister. They made up 62 per cent of each acts of hatred based connected religion.

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