To sum up the story: A Muslim attacked Jews. The police and media claimed he was insane. According to the Daily Mail, they also claimed he was a right-wing fanatic.
Turns out he was neither. This is not a one-time occurrence. The French authorities claim they're treating antisemitism seriously, but when they're faced with actual antisemitism, they do their best to downplay it.
Via Times of Israel:
An Arab-Frenchman accused of assaulting a rabbi and his son after stabbing a Jewish man in Marseille was jailed days after his mother discredited his insanity plea.
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Teboul said the incident had temporarily undermined the community’s trust in the local police and “worsened an atmosphere of fear which used to not apply to our community but is becoming a part of its reality.”
Teboul said the incident had temporarily undermined the community’s trust in the local police and “worsened an atmosphere of fear which used to not apply to our community but is becoming a part of its reality.”
Amoyal and the other victims said passers-by ignored the assault, opting to walk back to the synagogue rather than ask locals for help.
Adouche’s labeling as criminally insane prompted considerable criticism in the French media, where some viewed it as a failure to address an anti-Semitic incident in a city where officials have boasted better coexistence than in Paris and elsewhere in France. more
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