Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announces that “366 anti-Semitic acts” were recorded in the first quarter, an increase of 300% in one year

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced that “366 anti-Semitic facts” had been recorded in France in the first quarter of 2024, i.e. “an increase of 300% compared to the first three months of 2023”. The head of government denounced “anti-Semitic wave”Monday May 6, during the 38th annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif). “No one can deny the fact that it is estimated that French Jews represent 1% of the French population, but that more than 60% of anti-religious acts are anti-Semitic acts.he continued.

Earlier in the day, the government launched “conferences to combat anti-Semitism”, whose outbreak alarms the Jewish community. The number of anti-Semitic acts recorded in France almost quadrupled last year, to 1,676 compared to 436 in 2022, according to the Interior Ministry. Since October 7 (date of the Hamas attack on Israel) “anti-Semitic acts have exploded”, noted Aurore Bergé, Minister Delegate in charge of the Fight against Discrimination. She deplored that “ordinary hatred, fueled by the extremes, pours out on social networks, but also in our streets, in our schools, in our universities”. For Yonathan Arfi, the president of Crif, “these meetings respond to an imperative, that public power sets civil society in motion”.