The events of October 7 caused an explosion of anti-Semitic speech and actions in France. Stay or go? Many French Jews are wondering about their future, while the public authorities are unable to stem the scourge.
Raped because she was Jewish. This is what a 12-year-old girl suffered on June 15 in Courbevoie, in Hauts-de-Seine. After the kidnapping, sequestration and murder of Ilan Halimi, supposedly rich because he was Jewish, in 2006, the assassination of Jewish children in a school in Toulouse by Mohammed Merah in 2012, or the murder, in 2018, of the octogenarian Mireille Knoll, at her home in Paris, in 2024, it was the anti-Semitic rape, almost four months ago, of a schoolgirl which horrified French society and terrified French Jews. Hoping to protect herself, the teenager lied about her origins and her religion. She was nonetheless the victim of what looks like a punitive expedition. The youngest of his attackers, of Portuguese origin and from a Catholic family, had converted to Islam in a neighborhood mosque at the age of 12. He is presented as the initiator of the facts.
