Marseille: a Turkish high school teacher assaulted a Jewish name Daech – Le Figaro

The Anti-terrorism section of the Paris prosecutor has received the affaire.Une investigation was opened for “attempted murder aggravated because of the religious affiliation and relationship with a company terrorist. “

In Marseille

This is the third attack of its kind in three months in Marseilles. Monday morning, a young Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin and who turns 16 next week, was assaulted with machetes a man wearing a yarmulke. The latter, a teacher of 35 years, was not far from the French-Hebrew Institute The Source, in the tenth arrondissement, where he teaches. “It is thanks to the big torah he brandished it could divert the machete,” says Michèle Teboul, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) in Marseille. A passerby stepped in to intervene. But as he fled, the assailant has continued and slightly wounded in the back. The boy was arrested quickly by the LAC when he was going to take the subway not far away. “Intransigence against those who prey on our republican unity”, has dealt the Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, who said he was “disgusted” by the act. “Such acts are unspeakable and unjustifiable,” said Francois Hollande.

The young man claimed repeatedly during his arrest have acted in the name of Allah and Daech, “for the Muslims of France dishonor Islam and the French army guards the Jews” according to comments reported by the prosecutor of Marseilles, Brice Robin. “This is clearly an anti-Semitic attack” with a “form of intent,” said the magistrate that “the intent of the perpetrator was to kill.” The prosecutor further stated that the attacker told the police who arrested him as soon as he come out, he would arm to kill them …

“This act demonstrates the risk to some isolated individuals not known of any police and intelligence services to take action under the influence of propaganda, including on Internet broadcast networks, Daech “, said the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve . Indeed, the young Turk had been spotted by any radar. He had no criminal or psychiatric history, his grades were good. According to Brice Robin, it appears to be “radicalized over the Internet.” The prosecutor said his parents, who raised him “normally”, “dropped from the Cabinet” during the search of the home …

“We are witnessing a duplicating what is happening in Israel in recent months, an increasing number of knife attacks “

The Anti-terrorism section of the Paris prosecutor was seized of the investigation opened, among others , for “attempted murder aggravated because of the religious affiliation and in relation to a terrorist enterprise”. He faces up to twenty years in prison.

“It was very traumatic, says Michèle Teboul that it acts is absolutely not an act of balance as was said initially. He claimed that act on behalf of Islam and the Jews hate, “added the president of CRIF Marseille. It notes that the assault occurred in the district of Marseille “where there is the most religious Jews.” “We are seeing a duplication of what is happening in Israel in recent months, an increasing number of attacks with knives”, analyzes the president of CRIF. “This is what worries us most because it is civil war bearer hatred between communities and distrust,” says one who prepares a “day of brotherhood” in Marseille in May to fight against this phenomenon.

In October, a rabbi, his son and another person had been attacked with a knife on Canebier their way to the synagogue. One of them had been seriously ill in the stomach. The author of this attack has been sentenced to four years in prison including 18 months suspended in December. And in November, another teacher of the Jewish school Yavneh was also attacked with knives. Just after the attacks in Paris in November, was a young student, during a debate in high school, made leaders of the Jews of Paris and launched attacks that would “kalacher Jews”. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison.