{"id":121743,"date":"2025-06-08T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=121743"},"modified":"2025-06-08T07:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:04:45","slug":"08-00-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=121743","title":{"rendered":"French Rabbi Tells of Two Attacks in One Week as Hate Crimes Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>French Rabbi Tells of Two Attacks in One Week as Hate Crimes Rise<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Reuters <\/strong>and<\/em><\/span> Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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French rabbi Elie Lemmel talks with people after being attacked at a cafe terrace in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, June 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS\/Antony Paone<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A French rabbi was attacked on Friday for the second time in a week, he told Reuters, reflecting a broad rise in hate crimes across France that has included high-profile antisemitic assaults.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elie Lemmel said he was sitting at a cafe in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine on Friday when he was hit in the head by a chair.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI found myself on the ground, I immediately felt blood flowing,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was stunned and unsure what exactly had happened, he said, initially thinking something must have fallen from a window or roof, before it occurred to him he had been attacked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, given my beard and my kippah, I suspected that was probably why, and it\u2019s such a shame,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s incident follows another in the town of Deauville in Normandy last week, when Lemmel said he was punched in the stomach by an unknown assailant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lemmel said he was used to \u201cnot-so-friendly looks, some unpleasant words, people passing by, spitting on the ground,\u201d but had never been physically assaulted before the two attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The prosecutor\u2019s office in Nanterre said it had opened an investigation into the Neuilly attack for violence aggravated by the fact that it was committed on religious grounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

A man being held for questioning at the Neuilly-sur-Seine police station underwent a psychiatric examination that required his hospitalization, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to German-language identity documents found in his possession, the 28-year-old man was born in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis act sickens us,\u201d former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal wrote on X regarding Friday\u2019s incident involving Lemmel. \u201cAntisemitism, like all forms of hatred, is a deadly poison for our society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week, five Jewish institutions were sprayed with green paint in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAttacking a person because of their faith is a shame. The increase in anti-religious acts requires the mobilization of everyone,\u201d Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said on X.<\/span><\/p>\n

France has seen a rise in hate crimes. Last year, police recorded an 11% rise in racist, xenophobic or antireligious crimes, according to official data published in March. The figures did not include a breakdown by attacks on different religions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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French Rabbi Tells of Two Attacks in One Week as Hate Crimes Rise Reuters and Algemeiner Staff French rabbi Elie Lemmel talks with people after being attacked at a cafe terrace in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, June 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS\/Antony Paone A French rabbi was attacked on Friday for the second time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121762,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121743\/revisions\/121762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}