A 70-year-old man with a kippah was beaten on Wednesday evening near Alès (Gard) by an alcoholic individual who uttered an anti-Semitic insult, according to the victim and several witnesses, we learned this Thursday from the prosecution.
The facts occurred around 7 p.m. Wednesday in the small town of Anduze, at the foot of the Cévennes, when the septuagenarian, white beard provided, kippa on the head and carrier of Tsitsit (fringes that exceed clothes worn by practicing Jews) fed cats in the street, detailed the Alès prosecutor, Abdelkrim Grini, confirming information from Midi Libre.
For the prosecutor, who had to manage the start of the investigation into The assassination of the young Malian Aboubakar Cissé In a mosque of the Grand-Combe on April 25, “the anti-Semitic character of the aggression is proven” by the progress of the facts.
“Dirty Jew”
A 45 -year -old man approaches the septuagenarian and asks him for an aggressive euro, which his interlocutor refuses. The attacker insults him then and said to him “Ah you are Jewish! “, According to the account of the victim reported by the prosecutor. He then wears him a violent punch in his back, then, while his victim fell to the ground, inflicts him several kicks while dealing with “dirty Jew” on multiple times, about thirty times according to a witness.
Once the author of the assault has left, “the victim is so ashamed and afraid that she hides his kippah, (but) a lady then enjoins her to put her back,” continues the prosecutor. The suspect, of French nationality, has lived in the town for only a few months, is obviously unemployed and known to the courts for theft.
The suspect arrested
Arrested Thursday morning by the gendarmes, he was placed in police custody for “violence and insults due to membership or the non-belonging, true or supposed, from the victim to an ethnicity, a nation, a breed or a determined religion”, said Abdelkrim Grini, qualifying this assault as “completely free, ignoble and loose”.
At first, the alleged aggressor could not be questioned because of his manifest drunkenness. The victim was taken to hospital this Thursday to measure his possible incapacity (ITT).
In 2024, 1,570 anti -Semitic acts were identified in Franceaccording to the Ministry of the Interior, a “historic” level according to the representative council of the Jewish institutions of France (CRIF).
