Hate Crime in Paris: Beating & Cursing from Koranic Scriptures, Gang of 20 Muslims Attack Jewish Student in Front of Family Home on Sabbath

'One of the aggressors did not cease swearing on the Koran while beating his victim.'

PARIS (EJP)---The French National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism has denounced a reported violent anti-Semitic aggression last Saturday in the 10th district of Paris.

Raymond. A, a 17-year-old Jewish man, who wears a skullcap, was waiting on Shabbat for someone to open the door of the building where he lives, on the rue Albert Camus, when around twenty young people described as being of North African and Black origin attacked him violently at the face and the body after pronouncing his name.

One of the aggressors, Raymond reported, was a red-haired man who did not cease swearing on the Koran while beating his victim.

Raymond was saved by a Jewish neighbor who went out from his home at the same time.

“He saved my life,” the young man said.

A witness called police which arrived quickly on the spot and tried in vain to chase the aggressors.

Raymond was brought in shock to the hospital with wounds at the face and several bruises on the body.

The victim, who is a minor, and his parents, have lodged a complaint.

“We ask police to quickly identify and arrest the authors of this anti-Semitic attack,” the Bureau of Vigilance, which monitors anti-Semitic acts in the country, said in a statement.

According to the bureau, residents of this quarter have repeatedly expressed their irritation at the insecure and anti-Semitic climate.

Last month, a meeting was organized on this issue with the Paris police head and CRIF, the umbrella group of Jewish organizations in France. Another meeting is planned with the Mayor of the 10th district of Paris, Tony Dreyfus, for April 2008, after the municipal elections.

According to CRIF, the closure of a police station allowed the return of drug trafficking and violent anti-Semitic acts have increased.