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A tree in memory of Ilan Halimi – a young Jew murdered and tortured in 2006 – was cut in half. (Image: Getty Images)
The heinous vandalism and graffiti in Paris and the surrounding area over the weekend occurred when the Interior Ministry announced that anti-Jewish violence had increased 74% last year. Anti-Jewish graffiti appeared in the streets of Paris and a tree in memory of Ilan Halimi – a young Jew murdered and tortured in 2006 – was cut in half. The word "Juden", in German for Jews, was sprayed in yellow letters on a popular bagel store in Paris on Friday night, causing memories of Nazi Germany.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (Image: Getty Images)
The illustrations on two Parisian mailboxes of Simone Veil, a former magistrate and Holocaust survivor who fought to legalize abortion in the 1970s, were coated with swastikas during of the weekend.
Mr. Philippe told Parliament: "These acts are repugnant.
"I share the anger with more and more acts that target people or places, anti-Semitic acts against the memory of Ilan Halimi, anti-Semitic acts against the memory of Simone Veil, slogans placed here and there on this or that sign.
"We need to educate and remind people about our history, talk about the horrors behind these criminal acts. We must also punish more and we know that we can not hesitate to do that. "
Mailboxes of Simone Veil (Image: Getty Images)
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Monday that anti-Semitic acts increased by 74% in 2018, from 311 to 541 in 2011, he warned that "anti-Semitism was spreading like a poison ".
Of this figure, 183 involved badault and at least one death – that of 85-year-old Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll who was killed in a violent attack at her home in March. last, whose motivation was at least in part because she was Jewish.
The other 358 offenses involved anti-Semitic threats or insults.
The President of the Council of Jewish French Institutions (CRIF), Francis Kalifat, said that the growing threats required a "national awakening" to denounce "the normalization of anti-Jewish hatred".
Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, was killed during a brutal attack at her home in 2018 (Image: Getty Images)
In another interview with France Info on Tuesday, Kalifat said the recent attacks were "only the tip of the iceberg" because many victims are "too afraid" to come forward.
He said: "Anti-Semitism is a scourge for French society."
Other graffiti, found at the Paris offices of the daily Le Monde, targeted President Emmanuel Macron, using antisemitic metaphors to refer to his former job as a banker.
Speaking of the anti-government rebellion that shook France, Le Monde said on Tuesday: "The social crisis that France has known since the emergence of the yellow vest movement has only made it worse." encourage such acts.
France has since become one of the first countries in the world for migrants in Israel (Image: Getty Images)
Tribute to Mireille Knoll (Image: Getty Images)
"To think that this ugly old hate is going to be alleviated once social tensions are alleviated will be wishful thinking."
Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux echoed the theory of the World, implying that the recent attacks could in part be blamed on the far-right and far-right activists who hijacked the protests against the yellow vest.
Protesters have gathered every Saturday since mid-November in Paris and other major cities to denounce the rising cost of living and the liberal economic policy of Mr. Macron, which have often led to violent clashes with riot police.
The President of the Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), Francis Kalifat (Image: Getty Images)
"We are not talking about protesters struggling to make ends meet," Griveaux told France 2.
"But those who commit acts of violence, openly anti-Semitic or racist acts, they must be charged and severely punished."
But the sharp rise in anti-Semitic violence was reported even before the yellow vest movement existed, and there was no evidence linking the latest incidents with demonstrations.
Four Jews were killed in a terrorist attack in a kosher supermarket in Paris in 2015 (Image: Getty Images)
France has the largest Jewish community in Europe – about 550,000 people – its population has increased about half since the Second World War. But antisemitic attacks have become more and more commonplace.
A rabbi and three children were killed at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012 by Islamist shooter Mohamed Merah, while four Jews were killed in a terrorist attack in a Kosher supermarket in Paris in 2015.
France has since become one of the first countries in the world for migrants in Israel.
Macron commented on the series of attacks at today's cabinet meeting, denouncing the "unbearable increase" of anti-Semitic acts.
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