Three days after thousands of people rallied in central Paris against anti-Semitism, a 59-year-old man has filed a complaint Friday for an anti-Semitic aggression.
The man , wearing a kippah , said he was insulted and beaten Thursday night in the Franch capital by three men who drew a swastika on his chest.
According to the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism ( BNVCA ), the victim, a teacher living in Sameon, in northern of France, came out from a kosher restaurant in the 19th district of Paris when he was insulted and quickly followed by three men in their twenties.
The young people started shouting '' Death to the Jews , dirty Jew , dirty son of a bitch’’ as well as expressions in Arabic he didn’t understood.
‘’The three attackers then hit him several times in the face before opening his shirt to draw on his chest with a marker a swastika,’’ a source close to the police investigation said.
According to BNVCA the arrival on the scene of an elderly person forced the attackers to flee. The aggressors are described by the victim as ‘’young, wearing light colored hats dressed in jeans and of North African origin.''
The man was taken to a hospital with several facial injuries. A police investigation is underway to find the three attackers.
''The matter is taken very seriously,'' said a source close to the investigation.
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe condemned the aggresion.
''This act of unspeakable cowardice is a betrayal of the foundation of the Republic and the values of Paris,’’ he said in a press statement .
The anti-Semitic incident comes three days after around 10,000 people gathered in Paris, at the initiative of CRIF, the umbrella group of Jewish organizations in France, to say ‘’no to Jew-hatred’’ as they commemorate the murder two years ago of four people, including three children, in a Jewish school in Toulouse.