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Two French Jews wounded in antisemitic attacks

(JTA) – A Jewish boy and a woman were assaulted in separate antisemitic incidents in the Paris region.The incident involving the woman occurred on May 13 on a street in Sarcelles, a suburb of the French capital where some 60,000 Jews live in close proximity to many Muslim immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. The woman was lightly injured by three African women who assaulted her because she complained to them about the behavior of one of the women’s children, the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, wrote in a report. The children, the report said, had hurled a soccer ball at the daughter of the Jewish woman, identified in the report only as L.D. As they were allegedly assaulting the woman, witnesses heard the African women shouting antisemitic remarks, including “Hitler didn’t finish the job” and a statement about Jews being “a filthy race,” according to the report. Police were called to the scene and the alleged victim filed a criminal complaint for assault. She was treated in the hospital for her injuries, which required several days of recovery.

Separately, last Friday, May 15, four unidentified young men assaulted a 16-year-old Jewish male who was wearing a kippah as the alleged victim was leaving his home in central Paris, according to a BNVCA report. The perpetrators stole the teen’s cell phone and hit him in the eye. The perpetrators, aged 17 to 20, had an Arab appearance, the report said. A fifth individual, also of Middle Eastern descent, approached the scene and encouraged the perpetrators to “break” the victim, whom he called a coward. The beating stopped when an Asian woman intervened and threatened to call the police. The victim required emergency eye surgery.

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