(JEWISH GROUP) Jewish homes and businesses defaced with antisemitic graffiti in France

At least 10 Jewish homes and businesses around Paris and a synagogue in the northern French city of Rouen have been defaced, according to police, with antisemitism being considered as a motive.

The acts of vandalism came as France marked 10 years since the Paris terrorist attacks that shook the country. Twelve people were killed at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and five people were killed in the subsequent antisemitic attacks on a kosher supermarket in January 2015.

Buildings in the Parisian suburbs of Vincennes, Saint-Mandé and Fontenay-sous-Bois, many located near the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where the attacks took place a decade ago, were affected on Sunday and Monday, police said. A rabbi’s home and a synagogue in Rouen were also targeted with antisemitic messages and swastikas scrawled on the buildings.

---

“The Jewish community represents less than 1% of the population, and is the victim of 57% of all anti-religious attacks,” Retailleau told French media Tuesday.

more...


A Swastika and a graffiti reading "Jews pedophiles, rapists to be gassed" on a wall in front of the synagogue. Lou Benoist/AFP/Getty Images


A Swastika and a graffiti reading "Hitler player" on a wall near the synagogue in Rouen. Lou Benoist/AFP/Getty Images



Ten years ago today....

On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two Tokarev pistols, entered and attacked a Hypercacher kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in Paris, France. There, Coulibaly murdered four Jewish hostages and held fifteen other hostages during a siege in which he demanded that the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the Kouachi brothers, not be harmed. The siege ended when police stormed the supermarket, killing Coulibaly. The Charlie Hebdo shooting had taken place just days earlier, as did the Dammartin-en-Goële hostage crisis, in which the two Charlie Hebdo gunmen were cornered.

On 16 December 2020, 14 accomplices to both the Jewish supermarket attack and the Charlie Hebdo shooting, including Coulibaly's former partner Hayat Boumeddiene, were convicted.[4] At that time, three of the accomplices, including Bouddiene, had not been captured and were tried in absentia.[4]

Hostage-taking
On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State,[5] attacked the people in a Hypercacher kosher food supermarket at Porte de Vincennes in east Paris. He killed four people, all of whom were Jewish,[6][7][8] and took several hostages.[9][10] Some media outlets claimed he had a female accomplice, speculated initially to be his common-law wife, Hayat Boumeddiene.[11]

Coulibaly was later confirmed to be the gunman in a shooting in Montrouge the previous day. In that shooting he killed a municipal police officer, Clarissa Jean-Philippe.[3]
more...



Paris attacks: Four hostages killed in kosher grocery store named

Gunman killed, 4 others dead at Paris market

DU responds:

New hostage situation reported in Paris grocery
Two Killed in New Paris Hostage Standoff at Kosher Grocery Shop
Police storm Paris grocery where gunman holds 5 hostages

For "fun" search GD Jan 9, 2015 - Jan 10, 2015 "Paris"