French Interior Minister Condemns Anti-Semitic Attack On Jewish Leader
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(JTA) — France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb condemned an anti-Semitic attack in which a French Jewish leader and his family were assaulted in their home.
The statement issued over the weekend by Collomb’s office reiterated the French government’s determination ‘’to do everything to combat every form of racism and anti-Semitism, which have no place in the French Republic.”
Collomb’s statement expressed his ‘’indignation’’ about the attack, which took place Thursday night, and ‘’according to the first elements, the motivation for this cowardly act seems to be directly related to the religion of the victim.”
“Everything will be done to identify and arrest those who carried out this foul attack,” the statement also said.
In the attack Thursday night, three men, two of whom were wearing masks, broke into the home of Roger Pinto, the president of Siona, a group that represents Sephardic Jews. The attackers beat Pinto’s son and wife in the home in the northeastern suburb of Livry Gargan, the Dreuz news website reported Sunday.
One of the attackers said: “You Jews have money,” according to the family members.
The Pintos were taken to hospital for treatment. They suffered some minor injuries and were deeply traumatized, the report said.
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