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(114,904 posts)Obviously, no one should be at risk. Not Muslims or Jews or anyone else.
2015
Four Jewish hostages are murdered in cold blood at a kosher supermarket in Paris.[18]
2014
Jan. 26, 2014: Video footage captures anti-government protestors shouting Juif, la France nest pas a toiJew, France is not yoursat a demonstration in Paris.[19]
March 2, 2014: A Jewish man is beaten on the Paris Metro by assailants who reportedly told him Jew, we are going to lay into you, you have no country.[20]
March 10, 2014: An Israeli man is attacked with a stun gun in the Marais district.[21]
March 20, 2014: A Jewish teacher is attacked leaving a kosher restaurant in Paris. After breaking his nose, the assailants drew a swastika on his chest.[22]
May 9, 2014: A number of antisemitic scrawlings were found across the Alsace region in eastern France. Stars of David and the words « Juden Raus » were written on a car near the
synagogue in Saint-Louis in southern Alsace. Other antisemitic graffiti was discovered in nearby Huninge as well as in Village-Neuf, both close to the German and Swiss borders.[23]
May 15, 2014: A Jewish woman was attacked at a bus stop in Paris Montmartre district by a man who shook her baby carriage and said, Dirty Jewess, enough with your children already, you Jews have too many children, screw you.[24]
May 16, 2014: A dozen inscriptions were found in Toulouse including: "SS", "Hitler burned 6 million Jews and forgot half" and "Long live Palestine".[25]
May 25, 2014: Two Jewish brothers who were dressed in traditional Jewish clothing were attacked near a synagogue in Créteil. One of them suffered severe injuries to his eye. They were attacked by two men who were armed with brass knuckles.[26]
June 9, 2014: Two Jewish teenagers and their grandfather are chased by an ax-wielding man and three accomplices as they walk to their synagogue in the Paris suburb of Romainville on Shavuot.[27]
June 10, 2014: A Jewish teen wearing a yarmulke and tzitzit is attacked with a Taser by group of teens at Paris Place de la République.[28] In Sarcelles, two Jewish teens wearing yarmulkes are sprayed with tear gas.[29]
Main article: 2014 Sarcelles riots
In July 2014, dozens of young men protesting Israels actions in Gaza (following the Operation Protective Edge) briefly besieged Don Isaac Abravanel Synagogue in Paris and clashed with security.[30] Accroding to Serge Benhaïm, the president of the Don Isaac Abravanel Synagogue, noone inside the building itself was attacked.[31]
July 14, 2014: Bastille Day celebrations in Paris turn violent. Anti-Israel rioters attack the Don Isaac Abravanel synagogue.[32]
July 20, 2014: anti-Semitic rioting in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris. In November a 27-year-old man was convicted of arson for having deliberately set fire to a kosher grocery store.[33]
Sept. 2, 2014: Two French teenage girls are arrested for plotting to blow up a synagogue in Lyon. A Central Directorate of Homeland Intelligence source said the teens were part of a network of young Islamists who were being monitored by security services.[34][35]
Nov. 12, 2014: A kosher sushi restaurant in Paris is firebombed.[36]
December 2, 2014: "A Jewish woman was raped in an apparent anti-Semitic attack in Créteil, a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris," according to Ynetnews.[37] The rapist told the woman that he was raping her "because you are Jewish."
2013
During November, 2013, a new phenomenon had spread. Fans of the antisemitic comedian Dieudonné responded to his request and started to get pictures of themselves making the 'quenelle salute', a backwards Nazi salute, next to Jewish or Israeli places, Or even next to group of Jews.[38]
On September 16, 2013, a 20-year-old French national of Moroccan origin called Ohr Hatorah school in Toulouse and told a secretary, I am Mohammed Merahs cousin and Im coming over tonight to kill you. That threat was not the first one of this youngster, and he was arrested.[39]
On September 10, 2013, Frances ultranationalist National Front party suspended one of its municipal candidates, Francois Chatelain of Neuville-en-Ferrain, for posting anti-Israel photos and anti-Semitic statements.[40]
On September 13, 2013, in Paris a group of Jewish boys were attacked by a gang of teenagers who called them dirty Jews and said Hitler didnt finish the job.[41]
April 23, 2013 - Paris - A rabbi and his son were stabbed near the Beth-El synagogue by an Iranian man who had recently escaped a psychiatric hospital. The attacker stabbed the rabbi in the neck causing light injuries, while the rabbi's son was lightly cut when he came to his defense.[42]
March 12, 2013 - Lyon - A fake bomb was found near the Hillel Center, a Jewish institution in the city.[42]
January 3, 2013 - Toulouse - Anti-Semitic slogans, including a swastika alongside the words "SS" and "get the f*** out", were graffitied on a local chapter of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. The incident occurred less than a year after a terrorist killed a rabbi and three students at a Jewish school in the city.[42]
2012
October 9, 2012 Avignon The plaque at the entrance to the Jewish cemetery was smashed.[43]
September 19, 2012 Sarcelles A firebomb was thrown into a Kosher supermarket by two masked assailants, causing at least one injury.[43][44][45]
August 7, 2012 Paris A 17 year-old Jewish girl was severely beaten and insulted with antisemitic remarks by an 18 year-old Arab girl in a Paris suburb.[43]
July 20, 2012 Paris A synagogue was desecrated for the third time in 10 days.[43]
July 5, 2012 Toulouse A 17-year-old student of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school was assaulted on a train going from Toulouse to Lyon.[43]
June 2, 2012 Lyon Three Jewish youth wearing skullcaps were assaulted while walking to a Jewish school for Shabbat services.[43]
March 26, 2012 Paris A 12-year-old Jewish boy was beaten outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Paris by youths reciting antisemitic slogans.[43][46][47][48]
March 19, 2012 Toulouse Four Jews were shot and killed at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school by an armed terrorist on a motorcycle, later identified by authorities as Mohammed Merah.[43][49]
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