(CBN News) – French authorities found swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti in several locations in Paris on Monday, a symptom of France’s growing problem with anti-Semitism. Vandals painted swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs on mailboxes displaying the portraits of French politician and Holocaust survivor, Simone Veil. Veil, who died in 2017, was a leading French politician who was deported to Auschwitz when she was a teenager.
She is one of only five women buried in the Pantheon, which holds the remains of France’s most influential figures, including Voltaire and Victor Hugo. More anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on a wall in the 18th arrondissement (borough) of Paris. Frédéric Potier, a government official in charge of fighting hate crimes, said on Twitter that he notified authorities. “Anti-Semitic tags in the heart of Paris this weekend, to the point of nausea. When the hatred of Jews overlaps with the hatred of democracy, READ MORE
