sentenced to two and a half years in prison<\/a>\u00a0for \u201cadministering a harmful substance that caused incapacitation for more than eight days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nResiding illegally in France, the nanny had worked as a live-in caregiver for the family and their three children \u2014 aged two, five, and seven \u2014 since November 2023.<\/span><\/p>\nThe French court declined to uphold any antisemitism charges against the defendant, noting that her incriminating statements were made several weeks after the incident and recorded by a police officer without a lawyer present<\/span><\/p>\nThe family\u2019s lawyers described the ruling as \u201cincomprehensible,\u201d insisting that \u201cjustice has not been served.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThe nanny, who has been living in France in violation of a deportation order issued in February 2024, was also convicted of using a forged document \u2014 a Belgian national identity card \u2014 and barred from entering France for five years.<\/span><\/p>\nFirst reported by\u00a0Le Parisien<\/i>, the shocking incident occurred in January last year, just two months after the caregiver was hired, when the mother discovered cleaning products in the wine she drank and suffered severe eye pain from using makeup remover contaminated with a toxic substance, prompting her to call the police.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter a series of forensic tests, investigators detected polyethylene glycol \u2014 a chemical commonly used in industrial and pharmaceutical products \u2014 along with other toxic substances in the food consumed by the family and their three children.<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to court documents, these chemicals were described as \u201charmful, even corrosive, and capable of causing serious injuries to the digestive tract.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nEven though the nanny initially denied the charges against her, she later confessed to police that she had poured a soapy lotion into the family\u2019s food as a warning because \u201cthey were disrespecting her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThey have money and power, so I should never have worked for a Jewish woman \u2014 it only brought me trouble,\u201d the nanny told the police. \u201cI knew I could hurt them, but not enough to kill them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to her lawyer, the nanny later withdrew her confession, arguing that jealousy and a perceived financial grievance were the main factors behind the attack.<\/span><\/p>\nAt trial, the defendant described her statements as \u201chateful\u201d but denied that her actions were driven by racism or antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\nThe appeal comes as\u00a0France continues to face a steep rise in antisemitic incidents<\/a>\u00a0in the wake of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\nIn a disturbing new case, French authorities have also opened an investigation after a social media video went viral showing a man harassing a young Jewish child at a Paris airport, shouting \u201cfree Palestine\u201d and calling him a \u201cpig.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nWidely circulated online, the video shows a young boy playing a video game at Paris\u2019s Charles de Gaulle Airport when a man approaches, grabs his toy, and begins verbally assaulting him.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cAre you gonna free Palestine, bro?\u201d the man, who remains off-camera, yells at the boy.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIf you don\u2019t free them, I\u2019ll snatch your hat off, bro,\u201d the assailant continues, referring to the child\u2019s kippah.
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<\/a>A French Court Acquitted a Nanny Who Poisoned a Jewish Family of Antisemitism. Now Prosecutors Are Appealing.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2024-06-25T191339Z_1427162113_MT1HNSLCS000652AA9_RTRMADP_3_HANS-LUCAS-1.jpg\")
Procession arrives at Place des Terreaux with a banner reading, \u201cAgainst Antisemitism, for the Republic,\u201d during the march against antisemitism, in Lyon, France, June 25, 2024. Photo: Romain Costaseca \/ Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n