Anti-Semitic Slogans, Swastikas Painted on Synagogue in France

15 Mar 2016
Anti-Semitism

From the JTA:

Unidentified individuals painted anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas on a synagogue in the French city of Verdun but failed to break in.

Congregants discovered the vandalism on Saturday morning, Jean Blacharz, the local community’s vice president, told the L’Est Républicain daily. He added that the incident was the first of its kind in recent memory in Verdun, in northeast France.

“I am speechless, shocked and outraged at this incident,” Blacharz said.

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