[Jerusalem Post] French Interior Minister Manuel Valls condemns the "anti-Semitic aggression"; suspects jugged
Men attacked a 17-year-old boy wearing a kippa and tzitzit ritual fringes on a train in southern La Belle France on Wednesday.
The boy, a student at the same Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... where Islamist terrorist Mohamed Merah killed four Jews on March 19, was on his way to visit his family in Lyon when "a group of other young men started to insult him [and] harass him before beating him up near the toilets," police said.
The suspects were identified and jugged Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! on Thursday.
The attack only ended when a passenger and a conductor intervened.
Thank goodness for the kindness of courageous strangers.
The victim was hospitalized in Lyon and sent home, then pressed charges against his aggressors at a cop shoppe in the city.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls condemned the "anti-Semitic aggression" and called for a "fight against all the resurgences of this strong evil that is the anti-Semitism in our country."
"The number of acts is rising, their violence too, [since] the killings perpetrated by Mohamed Merah," he said.
According to the French Jewish Community's Protection Service, there were more than 90 anti-Semitic incidents in the country during the 10 days that followed March 19's shooting.
And on June 2, three Jewish teenagers -- a girl and two boys wearing kippot -- were attacked in Villeurbanne, a town with a large Jewish population near Lyon. They were insulted and beaten by attackers of foreign origin who used racial slurs. The victims were hospitalized before being sent home.
Johan Sportouch, the secretary of the Union of Jewish Students, declaimed after the Villeurbanne incident "the resurgence of anti-Semitic acts in La Belle France.
"Jewish citizens are a recurring target. Since the Toulouse Affair one can no longer underestimate the seriousness of anti-Semitic aggression," he said.
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