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French police
November 10, 2021, 8:41 pm
Teenager arrested after waving large knife in front of French Jewish school
Incident took place outside outside College/Lycee Juive de Lyon, with the suspect allegedly hurling marbles at students in the school and calling them 'dirty Jew'
By JTA
French police
September 18, 2021, 9:26 am
Jewish man assaulted in France after confronting men who called him ‘dirty Jew’
Five men ganged up on the victim who was wearing a kippah and suffered minor injuries
By JTA
Imam Mohamed Tatai gives a sermon at the Grand Mosque in Toulouse, France, on December 15, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube) via Times of Israel
September 18, 2021, 9:17 am
Court acquits imam of incitement charges for quoting text to kill Jews
Mohamed Tatai, the rector of the Great Mosque of Toulouse, had no desire to incite hatred in his sermon from 2017 a tribunal found
By JTA
Ahmed Moualek (YouTube) via JTA
June 13, 2021, 10:23 am
 French court sentences Holocaust denier to five years for making death threats
The sentence, for promoting terrorism and making death threats, is among the harshest in recent years in France over such offences.
By JTA
In Paris, thousands took to the streets to demand justice. (Photo: Reuters)
April 28, 2021, 10:32 am
French-Jewish judge resigns to protest ruling in Sarah Halimi affair
Jack Broda of the Tribunal of Commerce of Nancy stood down saying he 'could not believe' the outcome of the ruling and his resignation was 'accepted and regretted'
By JTA
April 19, 2021, 2:34 pm
Delivery man who refused to serve French Jews deported to native Algeria
Immigration authorities sent 19-year-old worker, who was illegally living in France, back to his country of birth amid the incident
By JTA
Police arrest a man armed with a knife outside a Jewish school and kosher market in Marseille, France, March 5, 2021 (video screenshot via Times of Israel)
March 5, 2021, 3:45 pm
Jewish school guards overpower knife-wielding man outside French kosher store
Incident on Friday morning in Marseille took place near the Yavne Jewish school and Cache Food bakery
By JTA
Police car in Paris (Credit: Andre Bulber, Flickr)
February 20, 2021, 3:54 pm
French Jewish policeman finds swastikas and ‘dirty Jew’ scrawled on locker
The officer, who is part of an elite unit at the Vélizy-Villacoublay municipality near of Paris, filed a police complaint and the incident is the subject of an internal probe
By JTA
Yaël Braun-Pivet
February 20, 2021, 2:05 pm
Hate mail to French-Jewish MP tells her to ‘prepare for the camps’
Yaël Braun-Pivet, who is part of Emmanuel Macron's centrist LREM party received antisemitic remarks in a private email
By JTA
Paris, France
February 6, 2021, 6:55 pm
Paris City Council adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism
Local authority adopts version of international definition adopted by numerous governments, including the UK's
By JTA
Plaque is affixed on the village school of Le Chambon sur Lignon and recalls the solidarity attitude of the whole population towards Jews during their WWII persecution, allowing several thousands of lives to be saved. (Wikipedia/ Author Pensées de Pascal / Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0))
January 31, 2021, 3:04 pm
Jewish man leaves £1.75m to French town that hid him from Nazis
Erich Schwam, who died at 90 on Christmas Day, willed his estate to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, the mountain town where his Jewish family hid for two years
By JTA
January 11, 2021, 3:56 pm
Two French kosher restaurant owners claim food courier refused to serve Jews
At least one Deliveroo worker reportedly said 'I don’t serve Jews' when asked to ferry meals to Jewish customers
By JTA
Vehicle of Paris Police Prefecture. (Wikipedia/Author Kevin.B/ Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
December 13, 2020, 11:59 am
French man who stabbed neighbour to ‘kill a Jew’ declared unfit to stand trial
20-year-old stabber, who has not named, told a judge that robots told him to “kill a Jew, who was the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler” before the attack in April 2019 in Bourdon
By JTA
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
October 27, 2020, 11:19 am
Turkey’s president invokes Shoah in berating France’s crackdown on Islamism
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: 'Relocations, inquisitions and genocides towards members of different religions is not a practice that is foreign to Europe'
By JTA
Haïm Korsia
October 23, 2020, 6:04 pm
French chief rabbi praises government’s crackdown on Islamism
Haim Korsia penned opinion piece stating that 'things are changing — belatedly, but all the same'
By JTA
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