Anti-Semitic attack in Paris: suspect arrested after attack on sixty-year-old

A man suspected of of having attackedé a Jewish sixty-year-old Paris five days ago was arrested this Wednesday, March 6. The victim, injured by the violent blows, testified. complaint and an investigation is underway.

A man suspected of of being the author of an anti-Semitic attack Paris has been arrested this Wednesday March 6. The suspect would be à the origin of blows carried out against people meeting a sixty-year-old leaving a synagogue near rue des Orteaux, in the 20th arrondissement of the capital according to the AFP decisions, in the afternoon of Friday March 1st. Having taken the "fleeà foot" after the attack according to several sources close to the investigation, he was wanted. for five days.

The victim of the anti-Semitic attack, a man in his sixties, reported the progress from the stage à BFMTV. "I came out of the synagogue, I sat down on the edge of the sidewalk of the synagogue and I saw a person pass by who looked at me. staring, who looked a little excited. The suspect returned a few minutes later and arrested him. the victim according to the latter's testimony: "It's you who kills people' Gaza ?". "I don't kill anyone, I've never killed' person" said he answered the man who was wearing a kippah on his head. It was after that that the sixty-year-old was arrested. hit : "He punched me and headbutted me and afterwards, I lost consciousness". The Paris prosecutor's office indicates for its part that that the aggressor "insultedé the victim of 'dirty Jew' while punching and kicking him several times" according to a source close to the investigation. Only two days after the attack, the victim indicated to BFMTV "not feeling in France" : "It makes me think à the Second World War is the return of Nazism.

The blows wereé such as the victim had to To be treated for a "fracture of the nose and a tooth" according to the mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. The man attacked and injured carried &eac; complaint à his exit from the hospital according to information from Parisien. An investigation was carried out into the matter. opened for violence followed by incapacityé of work (ITT) not exceeding eight days due to religion and entrusted to the XXth police station. It was within the framework of this investigation that the suspect was arrested. arrested.