A cameraman films the memorial stone marking the site of Strasbourg’s Old Synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis in World War II, after it was vandalised overnight on March 2, 2019 in Strasbourg, eastern France. The synagogue, which was the Jewish community’s main place of worship in the city, . (photo credit: FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP)
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Strasbourg’s memorial to the synagogue that was sacked and burned by the Nazis during World War II was vandalized on Saturday, two weeks after 100 Jewish graves were desecrated in the same French city.
Strasbourg’s Deputy Mayor Alain Fontanel announced the destruction of the monument on his Facebook page and dozens of people piled up on the case. “It is apparently a new antisemitic incident in our city, and we are doing all we can to find those responsible and bring them to trial,” Fontanel wrote.
Following the desecration of the graves this month, President Emmanuel Macron visited the cemetery and even promised “acts and laws” that will follow in the wake of the incident. Even before that, “yellow vest” protesters attacked Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut in Paris, yelling “dirty Jew” and “go back to Tel Aviv.”
Yael Hamias, a resident of Strasbourg, told Ynet after the destruction of the cemetery that “what is happening here is getting worse, and that frightens me.” Hamias, who lives near the cemetery, said she wanted to leave France because of the rise in antisemitism and added that “I am particularly worried about my daughter, I can not let her go out in the evening like we did in Israel because she is Jewish.
“I want her to come straight home after school and not leave the house,” she said. “Last year we were on vacation in Israel and she went out until 1 am, I was not afraid like I am here,” Hamias added.
On Friday night a 12-year-old boy was arrested for drawing dozens of swastikas and antisemitic messages on a school playground in New York City.
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