The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, requested, Wednesday October 11, that the perpetrators of anti-Semitic acts “who are not of French nationality and whatever [their] status” be “immediately” withdrawn from their title of stay with a view to expulsion.

“I gave firm instructions to the prefects that any person arrested must obviously be presented before the judicial authority,” underlined the Minister of the Interior during a visit alongside the Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, in front of a private Jewish school in the Ozar Hatorah network in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise).

Mr. Darmanin specified that “two or three people on the national territory” were affected by such a procedure “since Saturday”. They were “placed in an administrative detention center and/or are in the process of being expelled,” said the minister’s entourage.

According to this same source, one case concerns the Alpes-Maritimes, where a person was arrested after driving around in front of a synagogue in Cannes. The police discovered a tear gas canister in the trunk of his vehicle.

A second case was reported in Paris, where a man “claiming to be Syrian and speaking English presented himself in front of a school-synagogue” and “contacted the guards wanting to enter the premises,” the entourage reported. of the minister. “He made comments that were difficult to understand, but the guards would have understood that he was talking about bombs. The man then repeatedly declared “Allah akbar!” before being arrested,” continued the same source.

“No anti-Semitic act, no anti-Semitic remarks”

“We will not let anything slip through,” warned Mr. Attal during the visit alongside Mr. Darmanin. “The priority today for national education is to ensure security and serenity in our schools,” he also said.

Mr. Attal mentioned “alerts that have come back to us in recent hours and days, with students of Jewish faith who may have been the subject of attacks in their establishment” and “calls that may have been relayed from the share of collectives coming to tow or demonstrate in front of educational establishments”. The Minister of National Education spoke of “several totally unbearable and unacceptable situations” which have come to light: “Swastika drawn on a board in a class targeting a student, an attack (…) in Hauts-de-Seine of a high school student by friends”…

Mr. Darmanin also reported that “more than twenty arrests” linked to anti-Semitic acts had taken place since Saturday. Some “500 places – schools, synagogues, places where French people of Jewish faith are used to going, living within our Republic – are now protected by 10,000 police officers and gendarmes,” he said. he says. “I believe it is very important that all French people of the Jewish faith know that they are protected, regardless of the corner of the national territory,” he added.

France will not accept “any anti-Semitic act or remarks,” assured Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday in front of the National Assembly, where deputies observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of Hamas attacks in Israel. The head of government also promised “the greatest firmness to all those who would like to use this conflict as a pretext for anti-Semitism”.

The executive is “extremely vigilant [as to the fact] that no euro of French aid reaches any terrorist organization, neither in Gaza nor elsewhere,” insisted Ms. Borne, making the distinction with humanitarian aid .