Paris plaque honouring Righteous Among the Nations vandalised ahead of Vel d’Hiv commemoration

The plaque commemorates Arsène and Angèle Richard and their daughter Marcelle, who saved the life of Edmond Rajchman, then aged 13, during the mass arrests of Jews in July 1942.
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According to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, the gun found was a “military-grade weapon” and was found near one of the town’s synagogues.
Macron declared the date a national day of remembrance last year in honour of “the victory of justice and the truth against hatred and antisemitism”.
Presented by Aurore Bergé, Minister for Gender Equality and the Fight Against Discrimination, the plan includes measures aimed at strengthening education, law enforcement training, victim support and the monitoring of hate-related offences.
According to the findings, 71% of respondents believe that the cultural and entertainment sectors should not be involved in political campaigning or ideological struggles.
Under the Vichy regime’s antisemitic laws, he was stripped of his civil rights and deprived of his flat and library because he was Jewish.
Throughout her life, she dedicated herself to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and educating younger generations about the persecution of Jews during the Shoah.
The Paris criminal court ruled that the student was guilty of “school harassment aggravated by discriminatory intent relating to the victim’s presumed membership of the Jewish religion.”
The complaint concerns allegations of “public insult against a private individual on the grounds of race, religion or origin” and “repeated death threats motivated by race, ethnicity, nationality or religion”.
A French court has fined a supporter of Marshal Philippe Pétain after he publicly claimed that the collaborationist leader had “saved” Jews during the Holocaust.
A student at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University has been given a one-month suspended prison sentence by a Paris criminal court for participating in an antisemitic poll shared in a class WhatsApp group.
Police found videos of jihadist propaganda and hundreds of photos of weapons on his cell phone.
According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, an investigation for “public insult aggravated by discrimination” has been opened and entrusted to the Brigade for the Repression of Personal Crime (BRDP), several French media reported.

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