A septuagenarian victim of a violent anti -Semitic assault in the Gard

Wednesday, April 30, around 7 p.m., in the small town of Anduze, at the foot of the Cévennes, a 45 -year -old, alcoholic man, tackles a septuagenarian feeding cats in the street, and asks him for an aggressively. White beard provided, kippah on the head and carrying Tsitsit (fringes that exceed clothes worn by practicing Jews), the septuagenarian refuses. The attacker then insults him and tells him “Ah you’re Jewish!” »»according to the account of the victim reported by the Prosecutor of Alès (Gard).

The man then wears him a violent punch in his back, then, while his victim fell to the ground, inflicts him several kicks while dealing with him “Dirty Jew” On multiple times, about thirty times, according to a witness.

For the Alès prosecutor, who provided Thursday 1^is May these details at the Agency France-Presse (AFP) confirming first information from Midi Libre“The anti -Semitic character of the attack is proven” by the progress of the facts. The prosecutor, Abdelkrim Grini, had also had to manage the start of the investigation into the assassination of the young Malian Aboubakar Cissé in a Mosque in the Grand-Combe on April 25.

Wednesday evening, when the author of the assault was left, “The victim is so ashamed and afraid that she hides his kippah, [mais] A lady then enjoins her to put her back ”continues with AFP Abdelkrim Grini.

Assault “totally free, despicable and loose”

The suspect, of French nationality, has lived in the town for only a few months, is obviously unemployed and known to the courts for theft. Arrested Thursday morning by the gendarmes, he was placed in police custody for “Violence and insults due to belonging or the non-belonging, true or supposed, from the victim to an ethnicity, a nation, a determined race or a religion”said Mr. Grini, qualifying this assault as “Totally free, ignoble and loose”.

At first, the alleged aggressor could not be questioned because of his manifest drunkenness. The victim was taken to hospital on Thursday to measure his possible inability.

In 2024, 1,570 anti -Semitic acts were identified in France, according to the Ministry of the Interior, a level “Historical” According to the representative council of Jewish institutions in France.