Anti-Semitic Attack in France’s Lyon: Jewish Woman Stabbed, Swastika Graffiti Found at Her Home

Police in the French metropolis of Lyon are attempting to find a person who stabbed and wounded a Jewish lady on Saturday, whereas a swastika was discovered graffitied at her dwelling. “Such an act of violence is unthinkable. I offer all my support to the victim and her relatives,” mentioned Lyon Mayor Gregory Doucet on the social media platform X, previously often called Twitter.

Police in international locations world wide have reported a surge in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic offences in the wake of Hamas’ assault on Israel on October 7 that killed 1400 individuals and in a subsequent navy response resulted in the loss of life of over 8,000 Palestinians.

A spokesman for the nationwide police gave no additional particulars concerning the suspect, and mentioned he couldn’t affirm whether or not police had been treating the assault as an anti-Semitic hate crime.

The assault occurred in the afternoon when a person dressed in darkish clothes and along with his face hid knocked on the sufferer’s door, the New York Post reported citing French media. The lady was assaulted quickly after she got here to the door, and later rushed to a hospital emergency room, the studies mentioned.

They added that the sufferer had a conventional Jewish image on her door, main the prosecutor’s workplace to counsel there was an “antisemitic motive” in the crime. Almost a month into the Israel-Hamas struggle, over 800 antisemitic acts have been reported in France, practically double the entire for all of 2022, in keeping with the newest report confirmed on Monday by French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.

(With company inputs)