French police arrested a man who tried to carry out a stabbed attack at a Jewish school in Marseille, France, on Friday morning, French media reported.
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The attacker was turned down by the security of the Yavne School, made up of parents who act as security guards as volunteers, noted the Jewish Agency. The institution was immediately closed with the students inside to ensure their safety. A police vehicle was set up in front of the school building. French police forces were immediately alerted and instructed Jewish sites across the city to increase security in the light of the attempted attack. After leaving the school, the attacker tried to stab Jewish shoppers in a kosher supermarket in the city, where he was once again prevented from attacking anyone by the same security personnel. “Although the coronavirus has silenced the world in many ways, it has not silenced anti-Semitism, or the resulting danger to Jews,” said Jewish Agency President Isaac Herzog.
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if (window.location.pathname.indexOf (“656089”)! = -1) {console.log (“hedva connatix”); document.getElementsByClassName (“divConnatix”)[0].style.display = “none”;}“The attack in Marseille today is a red flag that should alert us to the anti-Semitism that is happening under the radar and is simply waiting to be released once the movement restrictions of the pandemic are over,” he warned. Marseille has seen anti-Semitic attacks before. In 2017, a man with Tunisian citizenship stabbed two women to death at a train station. And in 2016, just two days after the one-year anniversary of the January 2015 attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris, a Jew was attacked outside a synagogue by a French minor wielding a machete. The man was slightly injured and his attacker was arrested 10 minutes after the attack.