In Paris, thousands of Frenchmen against growing anti-Semitism in the country took to the streets. Trigger anti-Jewish invectives were Finkielkraut against the philosopher Alain and a destroyed Jewish cemetery in the Alsace region. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked France and Europe, decided against the hatred of Jews. the
thousands of people have demonstrated in Paris against anti-Semitism. They gathered on Tuesday evening on the Place de la République in Paris. Occasion increasing number of acts against the Jewish community in France. President Emmanuel Macron visited during the day, a Jewish cemetery in Alsace had been desecrated in the night before business.
In the past few days had shocked several anti-Semitic acts in the country. The philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was abused last week by protesters of the so-called yellow the West, enemy of the Jews. Representatives of the entire political spectrum had called on citizens to demonstrate under the slogan “This is enough” against the incidents.
With swastikas defaced graves
In the capital protested the former President François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, the Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, as well as the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe. “Anti-Semitism is deeply rooted in French society. We would like it to be different, but it is a fact,” said Philippe to the magazine L’express. “We must be absolutely determined to fight, I would say, almost angry in our will, ( … ),. With the clear awareness that this fight is an old and it will last for a long time.”
Macron had been shown during a visit to the cemetery concerned. The sight of swastikas smeared tombstones embarrass him, so the President of the Republic. “This looks like absurd stupidity,” he said, and assured the Jewish community measures. A total of 80 Jewish graves desecrated were found in Quatzenheim.
From abroad, there were shocked reactions to the incidents. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked France and Europe, decided against the hatred of Jews. Anti-Semitism is a disease, “the puts everyone in danger, not only to us”. He should be denounced, wherever and whenever he may show himself. The graves desecration in Alsace he described as “shocking acts of vandalism” perpetrated by “wild anti-Semites”.
