Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the desecration of a cemetery in France as an act of "savage antisemites"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Tuesday the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in northeastern Francein the appellant act "shocking" committed by "Wild Antisemites".

"Something shocking happened in France today. Eighty Jewish Tombs Desecrated by Wild Antisemites Wearing Nazi SymbolsNetanyahu said in a statement in which he called on French and European leaders to take "a firm stance against anti-Semitism".

Netanyahu reacted to the desecration discovered in Alsace the same day the French authorities called for mobilization against the proliferation of anti-Semitic acts in France.

"Antisemitism" is a scourge that threatens everyonenot only us, and he should be condemned every time he shows his head, wherever he is, "he said.

However, Netanyahu has refrained from calling the Jews of France to return to Israel as he had done in the past, and his Immigration Minister, Yoav Gallant, said he did not want to return to Israel. did on Tuesday.

"I strongly condemn anti-Semitism in France and tell Jews to go home and immigrate to Israel"wrote Gallant on the Twitter network.

Some 80 graves were desecrated Tuesday in a Jewish cemetery in Alsace, a French region bordering Germany, a few hours earlier. events held across the country to denounce the rise of anti-Semitism.

A photographer of the AFP find that The tombs of the cemetery of the city of Quatzenheim, a town of 800 inhabitants of eastern France, were painted Nazi swastikas. blue and yellow

"We will act, we will pbad laws and we will punish" to those in charge, said President Emmanuel Macron, who went to Quatzenheim to talk with the appalled inhabitants after the desecration.