Paris: anti-Semitic chants in the metro, an open investigation

Several people were attacked. recorded in the Paris metro singing an anti-Semitic song. Laurent Nuñez, the Paris police chief, announced that the Paris public prosecutor's office was grasped.

“Shocking, unacceptable, unworthy remarks”. It is with his words that the Paris police chief, Laurent Nunez, qualified the video showing people singing anti-Semitic songs in the Paris metro. Images, which appeared on social networks on Wednesday, show a young person filming the scene on her mobile phone. In a Paris metro train, several people chant these words: "Only the Jews and only your mother, long live Palestine (…) Only the Jews and grandmothers, we are Nazis and proud. In the train, no reaction to stop them.

According to information from BFMTV, the scene took place in line 3 of the metro. interviewed by the news channel to return to the context of his anti-Semitic songs. It indicates in particular that the group has "aimed" “A lot of communities.” "They started à sing songs in groups against the police, against the community; LGBT and also against France and finally against the Jewish people,” she explains. According to her, the events lasted until "a good ten minutes". A passenger then intervened, in vain.

The Paris public prosecutor's office was seized by the Paris police headquarters; for "songs, cries and anti-Semitic and hateful remarks uttered on public transport and circulating on social networks". The prosecution immediately opened an investigation to identify and prosecute the authors of remarks repressed by the law, and   “likely to take on different qualifications depending on their content”.  

A video which takes place while the The number of anti-Semitic acts recorded in France has reached records. 857 anti-Semitic acts were committed committed in France since the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, affirmed Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, Tuesday October 31, during a press conference.