« I saw a Jew getting attacked because he is Jewish » – Liberation

In the aftermath of the anti-Semitic aggression of a rabbi in the streets of Orleans, Yann Chaillou, founder of the association « Tous Orléans » and candidate (center-left) at the town hall, wants to cling to a « LUEUR OF HOPE ». « One merchant and two young people intervened, very different people supported this victim and immediately qualified the shocking scene »he insists on the phone. But, this Sunday, March 23, it is rather the images of violent blows to the face of the Rabbi Arié Engelberg who circulated on social networks and in the media. On a video broadcast by BFMTV and the Parisianwe can see the end of the assault, filmed at 1:38 p.m. according to our information. A young man dressed in a hooded jacket strikes twice at the head the religious dressed in a black coat and a white shirt. A man intervenes, while the aggressor walks away by kicking at ground level. According to a witness contacted by Releasethis gesture was targeting the hats of the rabbi.

A 16-year-old teenager was arrested on Saturday evening, said the public prosecutor of Orleans, Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren, adding that an investigation was opened for « Voluntary violence committed due to the real or supposed membership of the victim to a religion ». The Orleans rabbi was « Struck in the head, bitten in the shoulder and insulted »when he returned from the synagogue on Saturday afternoon, in the company of his son