According to anti-Semitic insults on the “yellow West”rally in Paris has initiated the judicial preliminary investigations. The attacks on the philosopher Finkielkraut were documented by video recordings.

The anti-Semitic outbursts against the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut on the edge of a “yellow West”rally in Paris to deal with the French justice. The Paris Prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation because of the incident. They are based on a paragraph that prohibits public insults based on origin, ethnicity, or Religion. Finkielkraut appeared shocked by the invective, want to forgo legal action.

In the case of the “yellow West”protests were lost on Saturday in the whole of France, around 41.500 people on the street, of which 5000 in the capital, as a spokeswoman for the interior Ministry said.

The incident on the sidelines of a rally is documented on video recordings, which were circulated on the Internet. To see how the rally participants hurl to the present, philosophers aggressive insults in the face.

philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was offended on the edge of a “yellow West”-a Demonstration anti-Semitic.

“I felt absolute hatred”

of The newspaper “Journal du dimanche” said Finkielkraut: “I felt absolute hatred.” He thanked the police for their Intervention: “I would have been afraid, if there would have been no forces of law and order, fortunately, you were there.” The channel LCI, he said, he had the impression that some of those present were ready to beat him.

President Emmanuel Macron condemned the incident on Twitter. “The anti-Semitic insults that he has had to endure, everything in question, what we are and what makes us the great Nation,” wrote Macron. As the son of Polish immigrants, had become for the French Intellectuals, Finkielkraut is “a Symbol of what allows the Republic to any”.

Finkielkraut criticised the movement as ‘grotesque’

Finkielkraut is one of the most famous Intellectuals of France. The “yellow West”movement, he was initially positive, in the meantime, he has turned away. “I support the rallies, he’s not,” said. The “yellow West”movement, had become “grotesque”.

interior Minister Christophe Castaner had been reported earlier this week that there were in France to 2018, significantly more anti-Semitic incidents than before. 541 cases were known, 74 percent more than in 2017.

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