2025.03.24 18:26World eye

若者がユダヤ人聖職者を攻撃 コミュニティーに衝撃 仏

【オルレアン(フランス)AFP=時事】フランス中部オルレアンで週末、白昼にラビ(ユダヤ教指導者)が若い男に襲撃される事件が発生し、国内のユダヤ人コミュニティに衝撃を与えている。(写真はフランス中部オルレアンでラビ〈ユダヤ教指導者〉が襲撃された現場)
 ラビのアリエ・エンゲルベルグ師は、ニュース専門局BFMに対し、22日午後、9歳の息子と共にシナゴーグ(ユダヤ教の会堂)を出て歩いていた際に、男からユダヤ人かどうか尋ねられたと話した。「そうだ」と答えると、男はユダヤ人を侮辱する言葉を浴びせながら、携帯電話で撮影しようとした。ラビが意を決して携帯電話を押しのけると、男が殴りかかってきたため、周囲にいた数人が助けに入ったという。
 現地検察官によると、男は身分証明書を所持していなかったため、警察が身元を確認している。
 別の情報筋によると、この容疑者は少なくとも三つの身元を使い分けていたことが判明しており、そのうち一つはモロッコ人、残りの二つはパレスチナ人としてのものだったとされる。
 フランスには、イスラエルと米国に次ぐユダヤ人コミュニティがあり、欧州連合(EU)内で最大のイスラム教徒コミュニティも存在している。
 欧州基本権庁(FRA)によると、2023年10月7日にガザ戦争が始まって以来、複数のEU諸国で「イスラム教徒への憎悪」や「反ユダヤ主義」の急増が報告されている。【翻訳編集AFPBBNews】
〔AFP=時事〕(2025/03/24-18:26)
2025.03.24 18:26World eye

France arrests young man for suspected attack on rabbi


French police have arrested a young man on suspicion of attacking a rabbi in broad daylight, a prosecutor said Sunday, shocking the Jewish community and prompting a wave of condemnation.
The attack against the Rabbi of Orleans, Arie Engelberg, happened as he walked with his nine-year-old son from synagogue on Saturday afternoon in the city, about 110 kilometres (68 miles) south of Paris.
Engelberg told BFM television that his attacker asked if he was Jewish. I said yes.
He started saying 'all Jews are sons of..., he said, adding that he wanted to film him with his phone as he hurled insults.
I decided to act and I pushed his telephone away, the rabbi said. His attacker then started punching and I protected myself, he added.
Engelberg said the suspect bit him until several people stepped in to help, he told the channel.
I'm OK, thank God, my son, I'm getting better and better. We've had an enormous amount of support.
Police were checking the identity of the person in custody since he did not have documents on him when he was detained, Orleans prosecutor Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren said.
Another source with knowledge of the case said the suspect arrested on Saturday night was known under at least three identities, one Moroccan and two Palestinian.
- Shaken -
France is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel and the United States, as well as the largest Muslim community in the European Union.
Several EU nations have reported a spike in anti-Muslim hatred and anti-Semitism since the Gaza war started on October 7, 2023, according to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
On that date, Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a cross-border attack in Israel, resulting in the death of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel's subsequent military offensive on Gaza has killed more than 50,000 people, the majority of them civilians, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run occupied Palestinian territory. The United Nations deems the figures reliable.
Andre Druon, a Jewish community leader in Orleans, said there had not been any incident in Orleans since October 7, 2023 apart from some graffiti before the very violent attack on the rabbi.
He said the rabbi was profoundly shaken when he recounted his ordeal to the community on Sunday.
Yann Dhieux, a locksmith, told AFP he had intervened with his arms wide and helped stop the assault, but that it was shocking to see the rabbi attacked in front of his young son.
Some 300 people gathered at the Bastille square in Paris to denounce the attack following an appeal by a Jewish students' association, and a silent march is planned for Tuesday evening in Orleans.
President Emmanuel Macron voiced solidarity with the rabbi's family and all French people of Jewish faith.
Anti-Semitism is a poison, he wrote on X.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said he was shocked by the attack and called for zero tolerance for anti-Semitism.
France witnessed some 1,570 anti-Semitic acts last year, the interior ministry says. They made up 62 percent of all acts of hatred on the basis of religion.
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