Gérald Darmanin announces that 1,040 anti-Semitic acts have been recorded in France since October 7

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Sunday November 5 on France 2 that 1,040 anti-Semitic acts had been committed in France since October 7, the start of the war between Hamas and Israel. This is a further increase since his previous report on Tuesday, since this figure was 857. He also specifies the number of 486 arrests for anti-Semitic acts. Among these arrested people are 102 foreigners, who see each other “withdraw their residence permits”assures Gérald Darmanin.

Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez, for his part, reported on Sunday 257 anti-Semitic acts over the past month in the Paris metropolitan area. Tags representing the Star of David, painted blue using a stencil, were notably discovered on Tuesday on several building facades in Paris, and in several towns in Seine-Saint-Denis and Hauts- de-Seine. Elsewhere in France, uA young woman of Jewish faith was stabbed on Saturday at her home in Lyon, with a possible “anti-Semitic mobile” according to the prosecution. Anti-Semitic tags were also discovered on Friday near a school campus in Strasbourg.