A Jewish teacher who was attacked by anti-Semitic assailants in Paris last week recounted the harrowing attack, in which he said three North African men beat him savagely and drew a swastika on his chest after he left a kosher restaurant.
The man, identified only as "David," spoke to the New York-based Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner , which published several photos of him with two black eyes, as well as pictures of the crude Nazi symbol he said was scrawled on him as a sick "marker."
"Often my family and friends who are still in France tend to ignore the rise of anti-Semitism and its danger, but this recent video shows that it’s real.”
- Rabbi Levy Djian, a Parisian living in New York
“They started to curse me out: ‘dirty Jew,’ ‘death to the Jews,’ ‘son of a b****,’ etc.," the man said of the March 20 attack. "Then they started to beat me up,” David says in a clip before breaking down in tears. “I was hit on my face, I got my nose fractured… And then one of them took something out of his pocket, I thought it was a knife… It was a marker… And this is what they did to me (showing his chest), a swastika as they were screaming ‘dirty Jew.’ ”
The 59-year-old victim spoke to The Algemeiner on camera a day after the assault. He said the attackers, North African “Maghreb men,” jumped him around 10 p.m. after he left a restaurant in Rue Manin, and while he made his way to a subway station. He was wearing a yarmulke.
David said the attack was only broken up when strangers approached, prompting the attackers to run. No arrests have been made.
Rabbi Levy Djian, a Parisian living in New York, told the paper Paris has become a dangerous place for Jews.
“It happened right near the main Jewish neighborhood of the 19th district of Paris where I grew up," he said. "Often my family and friends who are still in France tend to ignore the rise of anti-Semitism and its danger, but this recent video shows that it’s real,” he added. “It’s the first time that we get to actually see and hear the victim of such a brutal and obvious anti-Semitic attack perpetrated by young uneducated Muslims and it makes us realize what it really feels like.”
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe condemned the attack in a statement.
“This act of unspeakable cowardice is a betrayal of the foundation of the Republic and the values of Paris,” Delanoe said.
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