On Friday and Saturday, several Jewish ruins in Paris were damaged by green paint, including the Jewish synagogue of Mel de la Shoah, Tourneles synagogue and Agoudas Hakehilos synagogue (all urban Jews), and the third synagogue in different parts of the city.
this Jewish Telegram Agent In France, red paint was used as a protest against the ongoing war in Israel and Gaza, reported Sunday. However, green paint is new. There is no accompanying information in the graffiti, and no group claims responsibility.
French Jewish group Crif told JTA. “These paint sprays are stains of our Republican values.”
according to LemondA can of green paint was found in the Chez Marianne restaurant, which was also destroyed. CCTV footage shows a man in black committing absurdity at the memorial at 4:30 a.m. Saturday at 4:30 a.m.
An investigation, Paris Attorney’s Office told AFPin progress.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a statement: “I condemn these intimidations in the strongest way; anti-Semitism has no status in our cities and our republics. I ask for urgent intervention by the health department. We will file a complaint.”
Meanwhile, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in a statement that he was “shocked” by the actions and called on French officials to “take action promptly and firmly to bring justice to the perpetrators and defend the Jewish community from hatred and attacks of all kinds of hatred and attacks.”
Herzog’s great-grandfather, Rabbi Joel Herzog, helped build one of the destruction synagogues.
