mobilization – Around a thousand people demonstrated Tuesday evening in the center of Lyon to denounce anti-Semitism
A rally against anti-Semitism in the center of Lyon mobilized around 1,000 people on Tuesday, according to the prefecture, ten days after the anti-Semitic rape of a 12-year-old girl in Courbevoie.
“We are strong, we are proud, we are Jewish and angry,” chanted the demonstrators as they marched from Place des Jacobins to Place des Terreaux, brandishing flags in the colors of the Republic and signs “Jew raped, Republic in danger “.
“What happened to this little girl is an infamy,” lamented the Renaissance MP for the 13th constituency of Rhône, Sarah Tanzilli, who held at the head of the procession a banner “no to anti-Semitism, yes to Republic “.
Isolation from the community?
“Anti-Semitism and racism are not opinions, they are crimes,” she emphasizes, deploring the fact that “some people continue to fan the flames.”
In the procession, Nathalie Levy came to demonstrate to “show our support as Jews to the entire community, in France, but not only”, in the face of “anti-Semitism and the importation of a conflict to thousands of kilometers.
“There are almost only Jews” in the demonstration, noted Daniela Touati, rabbi of the liberal synagogue(…) Read more on 20minutes
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