Twenty "anti-Semitic acts" have been recorded in France since Saturday's attack on Israel by Hamas, ranging from threatening remarks "against Jews and Israel to the deployment of banners in support of the Palestinians," said Monday, October 9, the Minister of the Interior.
Gérald Darmanin, speaking after a meeting with representatives of the Jewish community of France, also spoke of tags and threats against businesses. "Ten people have been arrested" in the last 48 hours, he said. But "no clear threat has been retained," he said.
Reports on social media
There have also been "more than 700 reports to Pharos, the website of the judicial police," he continued, adding that 44 had already "been prosecuted." The minister was keen to denounce online hate and the glorification of terrorism.
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I also want to say that we have seen absolutely despicable remarks from collectives, associations, and sometimes political parties, calling for hatred, calling for an intifada, calling for the apology of terrorism," Darmanin said.
Before specifying: "I reserve the right to study the denunciations before the courts, in article 40 for any remarks that we will consider infamous, contrary to the Penal Code" but also to initiate dissolution proceedings. "I reiterate the government's full support," he said.