The Shoah Memorial, three synagogues and a vandalized restaurant in Paris – Liberation

The Shoah Memorial, two synagogues of the 4th arrondissement and another in the 20th century as well as a restaurant were sprayed with green paint in the night from Friday to Saturday. According to the Parisian,, The facts were noted by the police during their patrols around 5 am. For his part, RTL report that« A rereading of the video surveillance images of the Shoah Memorial revealed that an individual dressed in black was filmed in the process of tagging the place around 4:35 am ».

At the foot of the restaurant’s facade, at Marianne’s, a paint jar started was found. In addition to the restaurant, paint jets were noted by the police on the synagogue of Tournelles, on that of Agoudas Hakehilos, as well as on the Shoah memorial, all in the 4th arrondissement of the capital. No message or claim has been discovered at this stage.

The Paris police headquarters said that a synagogue, this time in the 20th arrondissement, had at mid-day, had « Also the subject of degradations by jets of green color paint ». Solicited by AFP, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that it has in charge of the territorial security of an investigation for « Degradations committed due to religion » Following the discovery of jets of green paint on these five places.

« I condemn these intimidation with the greatest strength, reacted the mayor’s mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, in a statement transmitted to the press. Anti -Semitism has no place in our city and in our Republic. I asked the cleanliness service to intervene in an emergency. We will file a complaint.  » In a message posted on x,, The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, has said his « Huge disgust ».

« After red painting, green painting, Reacted Ariel Weil, PS mayor of the Paris Center sector. This time, the gesture is more precise: Shoah memorial, synagogues and “Jewish” restaurant. After all, it is only heritage. And it will surely save lives. The “militant” acts, we know where it starts, not where it ends. ” The elected official refers to red hands which had been affixed to the stencil on the wall of the righteous of the Shoah Memorial, on the night of May 13 to 14 last year. Three Bulgarians, which revolve according to the authorities of their country « In the far right circles », had been imprisoned in this case. The tags had been analyzed by the security services as an interference operation on the part of Russian speakers.

This Saturday, the president of the representative council of Jewish institutions in France (CRIF), Yonathan Arfi, told him of his « sadness » and sound « indignation » :: « Whether it is an attempt to destabilize or not from the outside, it is an act which aims at the Jewish community of France and which produces for the Jews the feeling of stigmatization which is always a violent feeling. (…) This is where it is tragic, it is that whatever the motivations of the author, the consequence is the same: it is a form of violent stigmatization of the Jews. ” SOS Racisme also judged « intolerable » this « Action with anti -Semitic hints which explicitly cites the righteous ».

In a telegram addressed to the prefects on Friday and consulted by AFP, Bruno Retailleau had asked for a strengthening of the security measures of the Jewish community on the occasion of the Chavouot festival from Sunday June 1 in the evening to Tuesday, June 3.

He had explained these measures by the « Persistence of international tensions, especially in the Middle East », Who « Requires the maintenance of extreme vigilance, in particular vis-à-vis manifestations and places of a religious nature ». The minister had also noted that « Anti -Semitic acts representing more than 60 % of anti -religious acts, the Jewish community was particularly exposed ».

A total of 1,570 anti -Semitic acts were identified in France in 2024, after 1,676 in 2023, had announced on January 22 the representative council of Jewish institutions in France, which deplored a level « historical » For the second consecutive year.

Update At 3:03 p.m. with the reaction of the president of CRIF, and at 6:02 p.m. with the addition of a synagogue in the 20th arrondissement and the details of the prosecution.