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Two arrested after man shot by air rifle outside Paris-area synagogue

2019-02-20

Nine so blind as those who will not see. [IsraelTimes] French police arrest two teenagers in a suburb of Gay Paree on suspicion that they maimed a person while firing an air rifle at a synagogue on Shabbat. The two teenagers lightly maimed a passerby near the synagogue of Sarcelles on Friday by shooting a lead projectile into his calf, the AFP news agency reports. A court clarifies that they are not being investigated as suspects in an anti-Semitic hate crime over the incident. The two alleged shooters are aged 15 and 16, the Le Gay Pareeien newspaper reports. They staked out the synagogue from a balcony overlooking the building on Friday night, as worshipers began to gather there. Moise Kahloun, the president of the Jewish community of Sarcelles, says he does not believe the attack was anti-Semitic. "This is not an anti-Semitic attack, just kids who shot at random."

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French Islamic school teacher jailed for beating & shaving off student’s ‘un-Koranic’ blonde hair

2018-03-11

[RT] An Islamic school teacher in La Belle France has been sentenced to one year in jail for brutally beating his 12-year-old student and for shaving off the boy’s "non-Koranic" hair, which was colored blonde. The teacher, along with three other men, was convicted of kidnapping and violence against a minor by the Pontoise criminal court on Friday, French media report. The shocking incident occurred last April, when the boy showed up at his Arabic class at the Sablon mosque, in the municipality of Sarcelles, north off Gay Paree. The teacher apparently did not favor the new hairstyle sported by the student, saying his blonde fringe went against "Koranic rules." As a "punishment," he decided to shave off his pupil’s tinted hair in the middle of class. In Dire Revenge, the boy later pelted the offender’s house with eggs only to run into more trouble. The teacher called the boy’s stepfather and got permission to teach him "a good lesson," with the condition that it wouldn’t leave marks on his body. The boy was sent to clean up the mess made by the eggs but, when he showed up at his teacher’s house, he was attacked by him and three others. The teacher, his 20-year-old brother and two youth workers employed by the city held the boy for around two hours slapping and punching him, with breaks to give the teen water and a handkerchief. When the young victim was finally released and arrived home, his stepfather, who himself eventually got a six-month suspended sentence, ignored the boy’s swollen face and bruises. "This is not a religious problem but an educational one," the teacher’s lawyer insisted at court, adding that his client regretted the punishment, and that it went beyond what he had intended. In the meantime, the three other men were given from six to eight months behind bars, while the boy was awarded €5,000 in compensation.

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Jihadist who threw grenade in French kosher shop gets 28 years

2017-06-24

[Ynet] The French jihadist who perpetrated the 2012 attack in Sarcelles, injuring one, is to serve 28 years behind bars; prosecution describes decision as 'a miracle'. A French jihadist who threw a grenade at a Jewish store in 2012 ...that would be the Naouri kosher supermarket... was sentenced overnight to 28 years in prison by a court which also sent several others to jail after the dismantling of an Islamist cell which had planned other attacks. When its members were arrested in late 2012, the "Cannes-Torcy cell" was described as the most dangerous jihadist group in France. In addition to grenade-thrower Jeremy Bailly, the jury court sentenced eight others to prison for between 12 and 20 years, with the lengthier terms handed to two men who spent time in Syria, where the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bad boy group has its base. The convictions in a late night ruling on Thursday brought a close to an affair that predated the spate of Islamist-inspired attacks in La Belle France from early 2015 onwards, in which more than 230 people have been killed. France was at the time roiled by protests against Israel and naturally also attacks on local Jews and Jewish institutions. Another member of the jihadist cell--Jeremie Louis-Sidney--died in a shootout with police when they tried to arrest him in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in October 2012. The grenade-attack at a Jewish food store in Sarcelles ......known as "Little Jerusalem" because of the large number of North African Jews who settled there after immigrating in the 1960s, as did a large number of non-Jewish North Africans. They have on occasion clashed... north of Gay Paree the same year injured one person but killed nobody, an outcome prosecutors described as "a miracle". The dismantling of the cell allowed police to thwart another attack planned against an army camp in the Var area of southern La Belle France in 2013, prosecutors said. They added that the cell, half of whose members were converts to Islam who bonded on a camping holiday in Cannes, southern La Belle France, had also planned but not executed an attack on a McDonald's fast-food restaurant. In all, the trial concerned 20 people. Two were acquitted. Among others sentenced was a 23-year-old Laotian man who was judged as the driver of the car from which Bailly hurled the grenade. He was enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for 18 years. Among others sentenced but not present in court were a man who joined the Islamic State bad boy group in Syria and thought to have possibly died there, and another on the run in Africa. The Times of Israel adds: Analysts say the Cannes-Torcy network signaled a historic shift in La Belle France’s struggle against terrorism, to battling mass attacks by Islamic faceless myrmidons inspired, or even guided, by foreigners. During the hearing at a special anti-terror tribunal in Gay Paree, the cell was described as "the missing link" between the self-proclaimed al-Qaeda terrorist Mohammed Merah -- who murdered three Jewish children and a teacher in an attack at their school in the southwestern city of Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... in 2012 -- and the Islamic State network that hit the Bataclan concert hall in 2015, killing 130 people. The prosecution demanded "exemplary punishments" for the cell, headed by Jeremie Louis-Sidney and described as a violent leader with a "boiling" hatred for Jews. Kevin Phan, the group’s driver during the attack, was sentenced to 18 years in jail. Sentences of 14 to 20 years’ imprisonment were given to gang members who had traveled to Syria, including Ibrahim Boudina, who spent sixteen months in Syria and was accused of "returning to commit an attack" on the Cote d’Azur. Lawyers said the court had noted the diverse profiles of the twenty men, some of whom were from well-to-do families, and came from Algeria, Laos and La Belle France. Half were converts to Islam.

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Trial opens for 20 suspected of grenade attack on French Jewish store

2017-04-21

In which the mills of justice grind slowly. [IsraelTimes] Members of ’Cannes-Torcy’ jihadist terror cell, thought to have been behind 2012 bombing, face terror charges. Twenty members of a suspected jihadist network thought to have been behind a grenade attack on a Jewish grocery store in 2012 went on trial in La Belle France Thursday on terror charges. The "Cannes-Torcy cell," named for the towns where its members were based, is suspected of having planned several other attacks, and was considered the most dangerous to threaten the country when it was dismantled in 2012. The trial opens as La Belle France is grappling with fresh fears of jihadist terror attacks, with the police arresting two men Tuesday suspected of plotting an assault just days before the presidential election -- the first to be held in La Belle France under a state of emergency. Analysts say the Cannes-Torcy network signaled a historic shift in La Belle France’s struggle against terrorism, to battling mass attacks by Islamic Death Eaters inspired, or even guided, by foreigners. Of the 20 men being tried by a special anti-terror tribunal in Gay Paree, 10 are in prison and seven are on conditional release, Why? while three others are being sought -- two of whom are thought to be in Syria. Aged 23 to 33, they are accused of plotting to stage several attacks on military and civilian targets, and of seeking to join jihadist ranks in Syria. Later they went to ISIS, but I've no idea who they were connected to back in 2012. Police nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! two members of the network while investigating a grenade attack on a Jewish grocery in the Gay Paree suburb of Sarcelles ...known as "Little Jerusalem" because of the large number of North African Jews who settled there after immigrating in the 1960s, as did a large number of non-Jewish North Africans. They have on occasion clashed... in September 2012. Two masked men threw a grenade into the shop, injuring one person, but the fact that it rolled under a trolley prevented more casualties. Police also found bomb-making equipment in a storage unit rented by Jeremie Bailly, 28, the alleged leader of the group. Another suspected member, Jeremie Louis-Sydney, a petty criminal who had converted to radical Islam, was killed in October 2012 when police came to arrest him at his apartment in the eastern city of Strasbourg. The trial is expected to run until July 7, with most of the accused facing terms of 30 years to life in prison.

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French Jews emigrating to Israel, US, Canada

2016-09-29

Excerpt from a longer piece. PARIS -- Yael Haccoun and her family are Orthodox Jews from the working-class Paris suburb of Sarcelles, but they flew to Israel in late September to start a new life and escape the anti-Semitism around them. “French people think that it’s natural when Jews are targeted” in terror attacks, said Haccoun, 33, as she waited with her husband and their three children here at the airport. "The fact that the army must protect Jewish schools and synagogues isn’t normal.” She said her family watched in horror in July 2014 as a demonstration protesting Israel’s war with Hamas turned into an anti-Semitic rampage. Dozens of young men chanting “God is great” in Arabic and “death to the Jews” attacked Jewish-owned businesses with clubs and fire bombs. The number of French Jews immigrating to Israel rose from 1,900 in 2011 to nearly 8,000 last year, said Jacques Canet, president of La Victoire, the great synagogue of Paris. He said the country’s 500,000 to 600,000 French Jews — the third largest Jewish population in the world — “feel threatened." “Increasingly, Jews in Paris, Marseilles, Toulouse, Sarcelles feel they can’t safely wear a kippah (yarmulke, or skull cap) outside their homes or send their children to public schools, where Muslim children bully Jewish children,” Canet said. A poll by the French Institute of Public Opinion in January showed 43% of France's Jewish Community are considering a move to Israel, and 51% said they have "been threatened" because they are Jewish. Those with enough money have moved to more upscale areas within France or to Canada, England or the United States, Canet said. The wealthy, staunch Zionists and those who can’t afford to send their children to private Jewish schools go to Israel. Moshe Sabbag, rabbi of La Victoire, believes “100%” of France’s Jews are thinking of moving, but that prospect is daunting. The majority of France’s Jews immigrated to France in the 1950s and 1960s from North African Muslim countries. French Jews “love France, they love French culture, they want to stay,” Sabbag said just before leading Friday night services at the synagogue. “But Jews were targeted during huge demonstrations against the 2014 Gaza war. They were killed in Toulouse and Hypercacher,” he said, referring to the 2012 attack on a Jewish school that killed four people and the 2015 attack on a kosher Paris supermarket that left four dead. Muslim extremists carried out both attacks. Although 2015 was a record year for French immigration to Israel, the numbers this year are lower. As of August 2016, 40% fewer Jews had arrived, compared to the same period last year, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel.

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20 Members of French Jihadist Cell to Face Trial

2015-11-14

[AnNahar] Twenty members of a suspected jihadist cell who attacked a Jewish grocery and had ties to jihadists in Syria are to face trial after prosecutors said they had a case to answer. The prosecutors put forward their case earlier this week, a judicial source told AFP on Friday. Judges will now decide whether the trial will go ahead. When it was dismantled in late 2012, the "Cannes-Torcy cell" was branded by counter-terrorism officials as the most dangerous jihadist group in La Belle France. It was said to be planning numerous attacks, including against soldiers in the south of La Belle France, and had ties to Syrian jihadists. Police locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! members of the cell, now aged between 21 to 32, while investigating a grenade attack on a Jewish grocery in the Gay Paree suburb of Sarcelles in September 2012. Two masked men threw a grenade into the grocery, injuring one person, but the fact it rolled under a trolley prevented worse injuries. Police found bomb-making equipment in a storage unit rented by Jeremie Bailly, 28, the alleged leader of the group. Another suspected member, Jeremie Louis-Sydney, a petty criminal who had converted to radical Islam, was killed in October 2012 when police came to arrest him at his apartment in the eastern city of Strasbourg. Another three members of the group, all from Cannes, left for Syria shortly before the police operation. Two of the men -- Ibrahim Boudina and Abdelkader Tliba -- were arrested after their return. Boudina is accused of planning an attack somewhere on the French Riviera after he returned to La Belle France in April 2014. The third, Abdelkader Tliba, has still not returned and is thought to have risen within the ranks of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group. Prosecutors have called for him to be tried in absentia.

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French MPs Vote in Favor of Recognizing Palestine

2014-12-03

[AnNahar] French politicians voted Tuesday in favor of recognizing Paleostine as a state, sparking an immediate angry reaction from Israel which said such "unilateral measures" would harm efforts towards Middle East peace. Following hot on the heels of similar votes in Britannia and Spain, French MPs voted 339 to 151 in favor of a motion urging the government to recognize the state of Paleostine as a way of achieving a "definitive resolution of the conflict." The vote -- which is non-binding on the government but highly symbolic -- comes as European countries seek alternative ways to restart the stalled Middle East process. Sweden's government has gone even further, officially recognizing Paleostine as a state in a controversial move that prompted Israel to recall its ambassador. But the French vote result still prompted a swift and angry response from Tel Aviv, which said it would send the "wrong message" to the region and would be counterproductive to the drive towards peace. "Israel believes that the vote in the National Assembly... will reduce the possibility of achieving a deal between Israel and the Paleostinians," its embassy in Gay Paree said in a statement. A solution to the conflict will be achieved "only with honest and direct talks between the parties and not by unilateral measures taken by one of the parties or by third parties," it said. The Paleostinian leadership, meanwhile, expressed its "gratitude" for the vote and urged Gay Paree to "translate its parliament's vote into action." Paleostinians are seeking to achieve statehood in Gazoo and the Israeli-occupied West Bank with east Jerusalem as the capital. With little progress on reaching a settlement, they have been lobbying foreign powers for international recognition. The Paleostinian Authority estimates that 135 countries have now recognized Paleostine as a state, although that number is disputed. During a debate on the issue Friday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Gay Paree would recognize Paleostine if diplomatic efforts failed again and urged a resolution to the Middle East conflict within two years. La Belle France is spearheading a drive at the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... to unfreeze the moribund grinding of the peace processor and the Paleostinian envoy to the U.N. said earlier Tuesday a draft resolution could be submitted to the Security Council by mid-December. Riyad Mansour told Agence La Belle France-Presse the text was set to lay out a timeframe for negotiations on a final peace deal and possibly a deadline for Paleostinian statehood. It would also pave the way for a last-ditch international conference that La Belle France has offered to host. This European initiative was expected to be discussed in Brussels when U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... holds talks with European ministers during this week's NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... meeting. "If these efforts fail. If this last attempt at a negotiated settlement does not work, then La Belle France will have to do its duty and recognize the state of Paleostine without delay and we are ready to do that," Fabius told MPs on Friday. At a pan-European level, the European Parliament is expected to hold a vote later this month on recognizing Paleostine and EU foreign policy supremo Federica Mogherini is also pushing for the creation of a Paleostine state. "Governments and parliaments are taking action. That momentum will grow," said United Nations chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... last month. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... politicians in Gay Paree were more divided on the issue than their British and Spanish counterparts, reflecting the sensitivity of the debate in La Belle France, which is home to Europe's largest Jewish and Moslem communities. Senior politician Christian Jacob of the opposition UMP party told MPs ahead of the vote: "Who are we kidding? We are kidding the French people if we think that the parliament will have any influence at all" on the grinding of the peace processor. La Belle France was the scene of several pro-Paleostinian demonstrations during this summer's 50-day offensive by the Israeli army in Gazoo that killed more than 2,000 Paleostinians and dozens of Israelis. Some of these turned violent with looters in July destroying Jewish businesses and shouting anti-Israel obscenities in the Gay Paree suburb of Sarcelles -- sometimes known as "Little Jerusalem" for its large community of Sephardic Jews.

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Arsonist In Kosher Paris Supermarket Blaze Gets 4 Years In Jail

2014-11-08

[IsraelTimes] The four-year prison sentence given to the man who torched a kosher supermarket in suburban Gay Paree "sent an important message," the chief rabbi of La Belle France said. The Correctional Tribunal of Pontoise near Gay Paree on Oct. 26 sentenced a 27-year-old ambulance driver for setting fire to the Naouri kosher supermarket in Sarcelles, a heavily Jewish suburb of the French capital, on July 20. Identified in the French media as Abbas C., the driver was given a longer term than the 26 months sought by the prosecutor. "This sentence reflects the determination of the judiciary to fight anti-Semitic crimes," Rabbi Haim Korsia, the chief rabbi of La Belle France, told JTA on Tuesday. Korsia added that the French government under President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... and Prime Minister Manuel Valls also was "vigilant and firm" in dealing with anti-Semitism. Besides arson, Abbas C. was convicted of assaulting coppers, whom he pelted with stones, and the aggravated theft of a television set from a shop whose display window was smashed by rioters on the day of the fire. The riots had broken out in Sarcelles and elsewhere in Gay Paree that month against Israel's actions in Gazoo during this summer's 50-day operation against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the coastal strip. In some of the disturbances, Jewish individuals and Jewish-owned businesses were targeted, along with nine synagogues throughout La Belle France. Demonstrators in several of the riots turned against coppers, whom they targeted with stones, metal bars and other projectiles. Several of the culprits have been sentenced to jail time. The demonstrations took place despite a temporary ban on political protests about Israel.

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Tunisian Man Jailed For Assaulting Police At Paris Pro-Gaza Rally

2014-09-07

[IsraelTimes] Tunisian man who hurled a metal bar at police during a pro-Paleostinian demonstration in Gay Pared was sentenced to two months in prison. Tunisian, eh? And fond of anti-communal violence? Hmmm... In addition to the incident involving the metal bar, he also was convicted of assaulting an officer at the cop shoppe after his arrest and using anti-Semitic language while in jug. North African, fond of anti-communal violence, assaulted a p'liceman? Hmm, hmmm... The prosecution wanted a one-year sentence for the 34-year-old Tunisian national, North African, fond of anti-communal violence, assaulted a p'liceman, not a French citizen? Hmm, hmmm, hmmmmm.... but the Gay Paree Correctional Tribunal sentenced him to two months in jail and another two months suspended sentence, the news site 20minutes.fr reported Wednesday. North African, fond of anti-communal violence, assaulted a p'liceman, not a French citizen? This man wants investigating, along with all his friends and relations. The man, who was not named, has been in jug since July 22 and is expected to be released in the coming days, according to the report. Let the investigating commence! The assault took place July 19 in the center of Gay Paree, when thousands gathered near the Gare du Nord train station for an unauthorized rally to protest Israel's actions against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. That weekend riots also erupted in the northern suburb of Sarcelles, where hundreds of men started fires and smashed the windows of shops at the heavily Jewish municipality after police prevented them from approaching its main synagogue. Nearby, rioters hurled a Molotov cocktail at another synagogue, which sustained minor damage. During his trial, the man denied any wrongdoing, contending that someone threw the metal bar at him, and that he merely gave it to police. "Oui, oui, I gave it to them, Monsieur le Justice, as hard as I possibly could." French police have tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! dozens of alleged rioters who were suspected of violence at anti-Israel riots across La Belle France and mainly in Gay Paree. So far, five of them have been sent to jail, 20minutes.fr reported. Lots of new files opened at headquarters. And la belette Mahmoud and his endless relations in need of educations, dowries, and lovely clothes rejoice.

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Amid Riots, Jewish Self-Defense Groups In France Gain Traction

2014-07-23

[IsraelTimes] Shortly before their synagogue became shrouded by tear gas and smoke, 100 Jews wielding baseball bats and clubs were singing the French national anthem in front of the synagogue's heavy metal gate. They had gathered outside the main synagogue in the Gay Paree suburb of Sarcelles on Sunday to defend it against a predominantly Arab mob of 200 men who had gathered nearby with sticks and stones, setting garbage cans aflame and chanting "Slaughter the Jews." The Jewish defenders were not singing for the rioters. Their performance of "La Marseillaise" was intended as a gesture of gratitude toward the 100 coppers clad in anti-riot armor that prevented the mob from approaching.

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Anti-Juice Israel protesters rally across France

2014-07-20

Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in French cities on Saturday to condemn violence in Gaza, defying a ban imposed after demonstrators marched on two synagogues in Paris last weekend and clashed with riot police. I'm surprised Roooters didn't describe the demonstration as "mostly peaceful"... A Reuters photographer said demonstrators in northern Paris launched projectiles at riot police, who responded by firing teargas canisters and stun grenades. Demonstrators also climbed on top of a building and burned an Israeli flag. At least one car was set on fire. A police spokesman said that 38 demonstrators had been arrested by early evening and that the clashes were dying down. French President Francois Hollande said he understood emotional responses to the killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in a flare-up of hostilities with Israel but would not allow violence to spill over into France. Apparently he doesn't quite understand the murder of three Israeli teens by Hamas hard boyz... "That's why I asked the interior minister, after an investigation, to ensure that such protests would not take place," he told journalists during a visit to Chad. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve justified bans in Paris, the Sarcelles suburb and the Mediterranean city of Nice by saying the security risk was too great, prompting predictable outrage from left-wing and pro-Palestinian groups. He had asked police in cities to examine security risks city by city and, where necessary, to issue ban orders. The far-left New Anticapitalist Party, an organizer of last Sunday's rally and the banned one in Paris, urged protesters in Paris to defy the ban, prompting police to issue a warning. "Those who do not respect the ban, in support of protests or against them, face the risk of being stopped, arrested and handed over to the courts," Paris police said in a statement. However, large crowds defied the warning and gathered in the capital chanting "Israel, assassin" in front of police barricades. Rallies were also held in more than a dozen other cities, from Lille in the north to Marseille in the South. "This ban on demonstrations, which was decided at the last minute, actually increases the risk of public disorder," the Greens Party said in a statement. "It's a first in Europe." The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has contributed to growing tensions between France's Muslim and Jewish populations, both of which are the largest in Europe. In the first three months of 2014 more Jews left France for Israel than at any other time since the Jewish state was created in 1948, with many citing rising anti-Semitism as a factor.

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Jewish Teens Attacked In Several Paris Suburbs

2014-06-11

[IsraelTimes] Two Jewish teenagers reported that they were sprayed with tear gas in an attack in Sarcelles, a northern suburb of Gay Paree. The teens, who were wearing skullcaps, said they were attacked on Saturday night, according to a report posted Monday on the website of the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. The attack, which was captured by a nearby security system, reportedly was perpetrated by a group of youths ages eight to 17, of "North African origin," according to the BNVCA. The attack comes less than a week after two Jewish teenagers told police they were chased on Shavuot eve by a hatchet-wielding man and three others in Romainville, a northeastern suburb of Gay Paree. Last month, BNVCA and SPCJ, the watchdog of La Belle France's Jewish communities, documented two suspected anti-Semitic beatings of Jews in the Gay Paree suburb of Creteil. Also last month, police received a report about three men who were filming the entrance to the local Jewish school of Creteil, Otzar Hatorah.

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