ホロコースト記念館に赤い手形の落書き　仏パリ

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】仏パリ市当局は１４日、市内にあるホロコースト（ユダヤ人大量虐殺）犠牲者を追悼する「ショア記念館」に赤い塗料で手形が描き込まれたことを受け、刑事告訴した。（写真は、仏パリで、「ショア記念館」にある「義人の壁」に描き込まれた赤い手形）
　ショア記念館には、１９４０～４４年にナチス・ドイツの占領下にあったフランスでユダヤ人を迫害から救った人々をたたえる「義人の壁」がある。
　手形の落書きは、この下で２０個ほど見つかった。ＡＦＰカメラマンは、１４日の昼前に落書きを消す作業が行われるのを確認した。
　５月１４日は、４１年にナチス占領下のフランスでユダヤ人が初めて一斉検挙された日として知られる。
　パリのアンヌ・イダルゴ市長は、「ショア記念館の『義人の壁』が前夜のうちに汚損された」「言語道断だ」と非難。反ユダヤ主義行為に当たる可能性があるとして、検察に告訴したとしている。
　仏ユダヤ系団体代表協議会のヨナタン・アルフィ代表はＸ（旧ツイッター）で、ホロコースト記念館を標的にするのは「卑劣」だとし、「ユダヤ人に対する憎悪に満ちたスローガン」だと糾弾。
　エマニュエル・マクロン大統領も、「唾棄すべき反ユダヤ主義」だと批判した。
　歴史的なユダヤ人地区のマレ地区のアリエル・ベイユ区長はＡＦＰに対し、同区内でも学校や保育園など１０か所ほどに同様の落書きがあったと明らかにした。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/05/15-16:27）

A French Jewish organisation on Tuesday condemned a hateful rallying cry against Jews and Paris authorities filed a criminal complaint after red hand graffiti was painted onto France's Holocaust Memorial.
The Wall of the Righteous at the Shoah (Holocaust) Memorial was vandalised overnight, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a statement, calling it an unspeakable act.
Around 20 of the hand symbols were found beneath the wall at the memorial in central Paris honouring individuals who saved Jews from persecution during the 1940-44 Nazi occupation of France.
May 14 marks the anniversary of the first major round-up of French Jews under the Nazis in 1941.
It was despicable to target the Holocaust Memorial, Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) wrote on X, formerly Twitter, calling the act a hateful rallying cry against Jews.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the act as one of odious anti-Semitism.
The vandalism damages the memory both of those who saved Jews in the Holocaust and the victims, he wrote on X.
The (French) Republic, as always, will remain steadfast in the face of odious anti-Semitism, he added.
Meanwhile, the Union of Jewish Students in France (UEJF) condemned what it called support for massacres of Jews.
Workers were on the scene to remove the graffiti by late morning on Tuesday, an AFP photographer saw.
Around 10 other spots, including schools and nurseries, around the historic Marais district home to many Jews were similarly tagged, central Paris district mayor Ariel Weil told AFP.
Hidalgo said she had reported the graffiti to prosecutors as a possible anti-Semitic act.
- Rise in anti-Semitic acts -
France has the largest Jewish population of any country outside Israel and the United States, as well as Europe's largest Muslim community.
The country has been on high alert for anti-Semitic acts since Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel and the state's campaign of reprisals in Gaza in the months since.
In March, interior ministry figures showed a marked acceleration in crimes and misdemeanours committed because of the ethnicity, nationality, supposed race or religion of the victim between October 7 and the end of 2023 -- twice as many as in the same period the previous year.
While those figures were not broken down by religion or ethnicity, the CRIF had in January released data showing a quadrupling of anti-Semitic acts.
Earlier this month, students briefly occupied high-profile universities including elite Paris institution Sciences Po in an echo of American campus protests against the Gaza war.
Some of the students painted their hands red in what they said was a call for a ceasefire.
To all who said the red hands weren't an anti-Semitic symbol, here they are plastered on the Wall of the Righteous, government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot wrote on X.