At the call of the Network of actions against anti-Semitism and all racisms (RAAR), a march against anti-Semitism is organized today, Sunday March 13 in Paris, ten years after the killing of the Ozar Hatorah school. , In Toulouse. It will leave at 4:30 p.m. from Place de la République to reach Place des 260 enfants (4th).
“To say ‘no to anti-Semitism’ is to say ‘yes to a fraternal society,’ proudly announced the RAAR, which is organizing this symbolic march ten years after the attacks in Toulouse and Montauban, during which Mohamed Merah killed seven people including three Jewish children and left six injured.
“To mark the 10th anniversary of these events, the Action Network against Antisemitism and All Racism (RAAR) is taking the initiative of a march which publicly affirms firm opposition to antisemitism and all forms of racism,” added the association ahead of the event.
The forecourt of 260 children, where the march is to end, takes its name from the 260 students of the Saint-Gervais hospital school who were deported and murdered because they were Jews during the Holocaust. A “symbolic place” chosen by the RAAR to organize “a moment of memory and mobilization”. The opportunity for many organizations and other associations – which “share these same concerns” – to come back to the situation of anti-Semitism, which is still pressing in France.
A recent Ifop poll, carried out for the American Jewish commitee and the Foundation for Political Innovation, shows that a majority of French people polled avoid identifying themselves as Jews for fear of reprisals, while more than one French Jews out of two (53%) say they have already been the victim of anti-Semitic insults.
And to recall all the murderous anti-Semitic acts that tragically took place in France, including the assassination of Ilan Halimi in February 2006, the Hypercacher attack in January 2015 in which four Jewish people were killed, as well as the assassination of Sarah Halimi in 2017 and Mireille Knoll in 2018.