Nimes, France – Three men sprayed tear gas on an elderly Jew outside a French synagogue, the second violent attack on Jews in the country in three days. The attackers of the elderly man left behind an anti-Semitic slogan, according to the London Telegraph.
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The attackers, still at-large, launched the attack as the man, described as being in his 80s, was waiting outside to attend daily prayer services, Nimes Jewish community leader Paul Benguigui told the newspaper. Nimes is located in southern France.
Friday night, assailants brutally attacked a 42-year-old man in Strasbourg, hitting him across the back of the head with a metal rod and stabbing him in the chest. Authorities charged a 38-yer-old man, said to be mentally deranged, for attempted murder.
The Nimes tear gas attack “triggered certain worries” in the Jewish community, Benguigi said. Three years ago, a Muslim gang tortured and killed Ilan Halimi, a young French Jew, in a Paris suburb.
Approximately half a million Jews live in France. Local Zionist groups, along with the Jewish Agency, have been trying to encourage them to move to Israel as anti-Semitism rises throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
During his tenure as Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon urged French Jews to immigrate to Israel “immediately.”
I am French (30 years in France)and now established in the USA. I am surprised about that event, given that Nimes is a pretty peaceful city, overall, specially for Jews.
Antisemitism is a message from Hashem to remind Jews we are unique from the rest of the nations. I hope the victim has a full recovery. May all Jews be zocheh to be able to realize the dream of living here in E”Y, where Jews belong, without needing to be pushed by antisemitism.
Maybe the local zionist groups along with the jewish agency and real estate developers in jerusalem are behind the attacks to get the french jews to move to israel to drive apt prices up even more, like the zionist did back in the day in the day in the arab countrys to get the sefardim to run to israel, then it was to have cheap labor!
The problem in France is that you have about 5 million Moslems there many from North Africa. These are wild people. The French themselves are afraid of them. And they are not willing to extend themselves to protect the small minority of 500,00 Jews from these wild Moslems. I dont know what the solution is. Hasem Yerachem.