Hooded individuals defaced the wall of the Righteous as well as other places in the neighborhood during the night.
This act of vandalism occurs on the anniversary of the roundup of May 14, 1941 during which about 3,700 Jews from the Marais and the Paris region were arrested, transferred to the camps in the Loiret before being deported to the Auschwitz- Birkenau, in June and July 1942 to be murdered there.
A complaint has been filed, the police investigation is ongoing. In a climate of rising anti-Semitism, we are outraged by this cowardly and hateful act, regardless of the authors and the meaning of these tagged 'red hands'.
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