A 14-year-old Jewish boy who heading to hear Megillah reading in a France shul on Purim was attacked by a large group of local thugs.

According to the report in Yisrael Hayom, the assailants shouted at the Jewish boy: “Smelly (Dirty) Jews”, and then beat him with pieces of wood, broke his glasses and ripped off his yarmulke.

The local police arrested four youths in the suburb of Montmagny, identified by the boy who was assaulted. They are aged 14 and 15, and are reportedly of Arab descent.

“We expect action against the growing anti-Semitism in the French suburbs,” French MP Meir Habib said on Wednesday, adding that he expects to address the annual conference of the Krief, the representative council of Jewish-French institutions, on Wednesday.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)