French Jewish organizations on Sunday condemned an anti-Semitic attack in Paris in which a Jewish teenager was beaten by a gang of five youths with metal bars.
The 17-year-old was wearing his Yarmulka when he was attacked in Paris’ multi-ethnic 19th district on Motzei Shabbos, according to Ariel Goldmann, vice president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France.
Goldmann said the teenager was in a coma.
“There is no doubt that this is an anti-Semitic act,” he said.
“I call on authorities to do everything possible to arrest those responsible,” said Goldmann.
Police said they had detained five youths in connection with the beating.
Sammy Gholzan, from the Bureau for Viligance on Anti-Semitism, said a group of six or seven youths attacked the teenager with metal bars and “smashed his skull”.
He said the young man was a member of the local Lubavitch community.
The attack occurred on the eve of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s trip to Israel.
(Source: AFP / EJP)
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The similarly between these events in France and the other events in England the day before, and the events in Brooklyn a month ago (the boy doing an errand) should not go unsaid.
What preventive / protective measures will there be? We kind of already know that there are not ever any punitive measures sufficient to deter repeat events.
This is an absolutely horrifying story.
Can we have his name for Tehilim? He should have a Refuah Shelayma.
#1 – You are right. There are never any punitive measures… THAT MUST CHANGE!!!! We must not sit back or we’ll Chas V’Shalom have another Holocaust. We must learn from the past and prevent it from happening again!!!!!
No body really cares, it’s crazy! I think we should organize a demenstration infront of some French consulate or something. Could you imagine if this incident happened in Brooklyn?
his name is Rudy Nathan Ilan ben Maysa