Aubervilliers: four people in police custody after the assault on a Jewish family

Four people were taken into custody after insulting and assaulting a Jewish family in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) on Thursday evening, in the middle of Hanukkah, we learned on Friday from a source close to the investigation. .

At approximately 8:40 pm Thursday evening, this family was in a car when they were attacked by a “group of individuals” while the vehicle was playing “music and messages of peace in Hebrew” on the occasion of the event. Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, said this source.

“It’s intolerable”

The four individuals uttered “fuck the Jews”, before “shaking the car and throwing glass bottles on the body”, according to this source.

They were placed in police custody for willful violence because of religious affiliation with weapon by destination and degradation, said a police source.

On Twitter, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin indicated that this family had been attacked “because they were Jewish” and that the perpetrators “should be punished according to the gravity of these facts”.

“It is unacceptable, intolerable I am shocked,” lamented in turn the mayor of Aubervilliers, Karine Franclet, on Facebook. “All my support for the family and the community. “

In the Jewish community, this new aggression “serves as a reminder that there is insecurity when Jews are seen as such in France, despite the work we are doing with young people,” says Noémie Madar, president of the UEJF (Union Jewish students from France). For fifteen years, the association has carried out actions with the young people of Aubervilliers. In October, forty young Albertivilarians went to the Chné-Or Jewish school to celebrate Sukkot, the feast of the Cabins.