New act of vandalism targeting a Jewish institution in Paris. Tags hostile to Israel were discovered on Sunday on a wall of the foundation for the memory of the Shoah, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, AFP learned from police source.
In the afternoon, around 4 p.m., one or more individuals degraded the foundation wall, a private institution recognized as a public utility: it supports projects around Holocaust, especially in the fields of historical research, the transmission of memory, Jewish culture or intercultural dialogue.
In Paris, synagogues, the headquarters of the Foundation for the memory of the Shoah, the Shoah Memorial and a “Jewish” restaurant were vandalized to green painting or by anti -core tags. Amalgam alas known between anti -Zionism and anti -Semitism. This one is … pic.twitter.com/e7PWVieWsG
– Foundation of the Official Milles Camp (@camp_des_milles) June 1, 2025
The inscriptions “Free Palestine”, “Free Palestine” and “Fuck Israel Faith 10” (sic), were notably painted in black on an area about 6 m long and 2 m high.
“Judicial investigations” in progress
According to the prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nuñez, “judicial investigations” are underway on these facts. “It is a manifestly anti-Semitic act,” he said on Monday on RTL, being prudent for the time being.
“One more act, an act of too much. Never get used to the shame or the cowardice of anti -Semitism. And always fighting them, ”reacted on the social network X the Minister of Equality between Women and Men and the fight against discrimination Aurore Bergé.
One more act, an act of too much.
Never get used to the shame or the cowardice of anti -Semitism.And always fight them. https://t.co/tL00ngc6Iw
– Aurore Bergé (@Auroreberge) June 2, 2025
Founded in 2001, the FMS is chaired by the lawyer Me Pierre-François Veil, one of the sons of Simone Veil. During the night from Friday to Saturday, the Shoah Memorialthree synagogues and a restaurant in the capital have been sprayed with green painting, arousing “indignation” and the condemnation of political figures from all sides.
