French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the resurgence of anti-Semitism in France, in a letter published by the newspaper Le Parisien on Saturday 11 November. The number of anti-Semitic acts has soared in France since 7 October.
French President Emmanuel Macron deplored the “unbearable resurgence of unbridled anti-Semitism” and said that “a France where our Jewish fellow citizens are afraid is not France”, in a letter published in Le Parisien on Saturday evening on the eve of a march against anti-Semitism.
“Whether it is religious, social, identity-based or racial, anti-Semitism is always as Émile Zola presented it: odious”, wrote the President of the Republic on the eve of a “great civic march” which, according to him, should show a France “united behind its values, its universalism”.
“A France where our Jewish fellow citizens are afraid is not France. A France where French people are afraid because of their religion or origin is not France”, he added.
The Elysée Palace had announced that the President of the Republic intended to address the French people before the demonstration organised in Paris on Sunday at the call of the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate, Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher.
The number of anti-Jewish incidents has soared since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October and the Israeli military response. More than 1,200 were recorded in one month.
Malo Pinatel, with AFP
