During the night from Monday to Tuesday, “hooded individuals defaced the Wall of the Righteous”, where plaques listing the 3,900 men and women who contributed to saving Jews during the Second World War are affixed.
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An investigation was opened for aggravated damage after red hands were spray-painted on the Wall of the Righteous, outside the Shoah Memorial in Paris. “The investigation into the offense of willful damage to a classified property and due to belonging to a nation, ethnicity, race or religion, was entrusted to Paris territorial security”specifies the Paris prosecutor’s office, requested by AFP, Wednesday May 15.
On the night of Monday May 13 to Tuesday May 14, “hooded individuals degraded the Wall of the Righteous”, where plaques listing the 3,900 men and women who helped save Jews during World War II are displayed. The tags representing red hands were then erased. Several hundred people gathered Tuesday evening in front of the wall.
Around ten other places were also tagged in the Marais district, “school or nursery type”, according to Ariel Weil, the mayor of Paris Center, a sector which brings together the first four arrondissements of the capital. Anne Hidalgo thus reported these acts to the Paris prosecutor “potentially constituting the offense of public insult of an anti-Semitic nature”.
The symbol of “red hands” was at the heart of a controversy at the end of April when students from Sciences Po Paris exhibited their palms painted red in front of the school, as a call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. , according to them. But voices were raised to denounce an allusion to the lynching of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah in 2000 by Palestinians.
