“The same team” is suspected of having carried out, last week, several markings of Stars of David in Paris and its suburbs “in a single trip”, the capital’s prosecutor’s office said on Monday, November 6. , requested by Agence France-Presse concerning these tags whose anti-Semitic nature has not been established at this stage.
Several dozen Stars of David were discovered on the morning of Tuesday October 31, tagged on building facades in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and in other places in Paris and the suburbs. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, denounced “despicable actions”, seeing them, like many political figures, as anti-Semitic acts.
Initially, three investigations were opened in Bobigny, Nanterre and Paris, for “degradation of the property of others aggravated by the circumstance that it was committed due to origin, race, ethnicity or religion “. The three were finally grouped together in Paris, the capital’s prosecutor’s office said Monday morning. “It appears in fact that the same team was able to carry out the different markings during a single journey. Investigations are continuing,” adds the public prosecutor.
“Atypical affair”
On Friday, this same source clarified that it “has not been established that this star has an anti-Semitic connotation, but this cannot be ruled out out of hand.” The public prosecutor said it was investigating “the intention underlying these tags, particularly with regard to the geopolitical context and its impact among the population in France”.
Sunday, on BFM-TV, the Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, spoke of an “atypical case compared to other anti-Semitic acts” and put the number of affixings of this star at 250. He confirmed that a “ team of authors who seem to coordinate rather well” was in the investigators’ sights and had “the desire for these stars to be seen.” The team reportedly targeted “certain buildings where no members of the Jewish community lived.” According to him, 257 anti-Semitic acts have been recorded in the Paris metropolitan area and 90 people arrested since October 7, the date of the start of the conflict between Hamas and Israel.