They had just left the synagogue. A father and his two sons were allegedly victims of anti-Semitic insults last Friday in Massy (Essonne). An investigation is underway, the suspects are being sought.
It was in the early evening of March 22 that the events occurred. On this Shabbat day, the man and his two children (20 and 11 years old) have just attended the 8 p.m. service at the Massy synagogue. They leave the place of worship on foot. A little further on, a group of young people crossed their path. According to the father of the family, who filed a complaint, the insults quickly flowed: “
Dirty Jews
”, “
son of a bitch…
”… The man had his kippah on his head, that’s how he thinks. , that he and his children could be identified as members of the Jewish community. The victims then fled.
Teenagers wanted
The victim filed a complaint at the beginning of the week at the Massy-Palaiseau police station. “An investigation is underway for anti-Semitic insults,” confirms a source close to the matter. Little information has been gathered at this stage about the perpetrators, who are believed to be between 3 and 4, perhaps teenagers. The use of video surveillance cameras could help the police.
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On March 1 in Paris, a sixty-year-old man was beaten leaving the synagogue, again. The Minister of the Interior then spoke of an “unspeakable act”.
Places of worship, particularly those dedicated to the Jewish community, have benefited from increased surveillance by law enforcement in recent months. In Essonne as elsewhere, police and gendarmerie patrols secure the areas around synagogues before and after the ceremonies. It will be the same this weekend, during Easter celebrations among Catholics.