Lyon mayor condemns ‘Free Gaza’ defacement of Holocaust memorial | France
Local officials were written with increasing concerns about anti -Semitic events in France, and a Holocaust monument introduced in Lyon, the French city only eight months ago.
The words were drawn to the Black Marble Monument late on Saturday, the Mayor of the city Grégory Doucet– in question. Yonathan Arfi from the Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) published a photo on social media and called the incident as “inferiority ..
Doucet said that the deterioration of the 3 -meter monument outside the city station, where hundreds of Jews were transferred to Nazi death camps, is “unbearable ve and the perpetrators will be“ followed and prosecuted ”. “Hate continues to be intact against hate, anti -Semitism and racism, Ly Lyon said.
The monument was introduced in January to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
According to the figures from the Ministry of Health, the number of anti -Semitic events recorded in France has increased sharply since the Hamas’s Israeli attack and Israel’s retaliation attack that killed at least 63,000 Palestinians.
Last week, the French Interior Ministry said that in the first six months of 2025, 27% less anti -Jewish action was recorded in France compared to the same period of the previous year, but the number was twice as high as the first half of 2023.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Emmanuel Macron of contributing to an increase in anti -Semitism, demanding the international recognition of a Palestinian state. French President described “Abject” and “wrong”.
This week, the French government, which condemned the increasing security in the anti -Semitism and in the synagogues and other Jewish centers, called on the US ambassador to Paris after accusing not to do enough to eliminate anti -Jewish hate crimes.
