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FRENCH POLICE are investigating antisemitic graffiti daubed on an apartment block in central Paris, with politicians calling for the perpetrators to be “severely punished”.
The front door of the apartment building, on the Rue Ordener in the capital’s 18th arrondissement, was defaced in the early hours of Thursday morning last week.
On the left side of the door, vandals wrote “Jewish filth lives here”.
The graffiti on the right side added the words “especially on the third floor”, alongside a symbol described as either a gun target or a Celtic cross, a symbol sometimes used by far-right groups.
Pictures of the graffiti circulated widely on social media. The daubings were removed by the local council that same day.
Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris, tweeted: “In the aftermath of the disappearance of the great Marcellin Loridan-Ivens [a French Holocaust survivor who died earlier this week], this despicable act reminds us that antisemitism
still persists, right here, in the very heart of Paris.
“Let us all be mobilised to fight it. My determination [to do so] is total. All my support for the Jewish community.”
The French Jewish community organisation Crif said: “We are in 2018 and antisemitism is still hitting our doors in the middle of Paris.
“Crif again condemns these acts of vandalism which endanger France as a whole, and hopes that the perpetrators will be found and punished.”