February: In Amiens – Three policemen were suspended after making Nazi salutes and shouting anti-Semitic and white supremacist slogans in a local bar. Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie confirmed the incident and condemned the attack, stating, “this intolerable behavior ... is in total contradiction with the police force’s code of ethics.” The police inspector-general launched a disciplinary investigation.
March: Following a fight that broke out between two drivers, in an outburst of curses, a woman yelled: “Like any good Jew, you think that you are above the law with your Jewish car.”
March: Anti-Semitic thugs locked up, brutally attacked and tormented a Jewish youth in the same Paris suburb where Ilan Hamili was tortured to death two years ago. For many hours the attackers tortured the young man. One shoved cigarette butts into his mouth, another took issue with Roumi's Jewish origin, grabbed correction fluid and scrawled "dirty Jew" on his forehead. The six men proceeded to scream at him and threaten that he would die the way Halimi did. The gang members are aged 17-25 and have been charged with locking up a 19-year-old boy, beating and sexually tormenting him. The attack occurred in the Paris suburb of Bagneux.
March: Sunday, March 2nd, on the edge of a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the Opera Square in Paris, a black woman was attacked and a young Jew leaving the cinema was taken aside and beaten with chains and helmets. He did not take sick leave but required several stitches in his left eyebrow and skull. He has bruises on his cheek and a hemorrhage around his left eye. He was injured in his back from the chains.
March: Anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas were discovered in the public areas of a Parisian hospital.
March: Three men approached a young woman as she was leaving a Judaism lesson, As they hurled anti-Semitic curses at her, landed a blow on her head and grabbed her cell-phone from her.
April: An inscription with a swastika was found on the Saint-Georges Bridge near Jewish organizations.
April: Nine swastikas were engraved on a gate of a locksmith’s workshop in Lavel. In addition, the initials S.S. were engraved on the owner’s door.
April: A Jewish female store owner in Marseilles was the victim of anti-Semitic insults by a temporary worker when told that her employment was discontinued. A charge was filed.
April: A mezuzah belonging to a Jewish family in Paris was vandalized and stolen.
April: While listening to music on her iPod, and wearing a Star of David, a woman was insulted by two people: "it is normal that you have an iPod because you are a Jew, meaning you have money, filthy Jew." After that her ankle was kicked, before the iPod was violently taken away from her.
April: While taking his car out of a garage, a Jewish tenant in Paris suffered insults from the place owner. He was told, among other things: "you are misers like fleas." It should be mentioned that the owner thought the tenant was wearing a skullcap on his head.
April: During an attempt to steal a recreation vehicle owned by a Jewish woman in Paris, the would-be theives humiliated the woman and engraved on the back of the vehicle the inscription "dirty Jew."
April: A fight started between a Jewish costumer and a waiter in Paris who insulted him and called him a "dirty Jew piece of sh*t."
June: Rudy Haddad, a Jewish teenager was beaten by a gang of five youths with metal bars. The Jewish teenager, who lives in Paris, was severely injured and is currently unconscious. The 17-year-old was wearing a yarmulka when he was attacked in Paris's multi-ethnic 19th district Saturday evening, according to Ariel Goldmann, vice president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France.
September: French police are investigating a rash of anti-Semitic graffiti on a college campus in southern France, Approximately 40 swastikas and racial insults were sprayed on the walls of the college in Agde, in southern France.
September: Three Bnei Akiva counselors were attacked by Muslims Saturday on a street in Paris' 19th District, in the city's northeast end. The youths were outside a Bnei Akiva branch, and were about to go on a joint Bnei Akiva – Jewish Agency (JA) activity. They are now hospitalized with fractures, mostly in the area of the face. Their condition is not life-threatening. According to Rafi Zaush, who represents Bnei Akiva and the JA: "The attackers threw chestnuts at the boys. One of the boys asked: 'Why are you attacking us?'. The attackers answered with anti-Semitic shouts in Arabic. The three attackers then brought a group of 10 to 12 youths with brass knuckles who attacked the Jewish youths until the police came. The attackers fled."
October: in Vitry-sur-seine, southeast of Paris, a 40-year-old man and his 18-year-old son were severely beaten after they came to the defense of two young relatives. The aggressors shouted antisemitic insults during the attack. According to a police official, there is a “strong suspicion” that the attack was antisemitic motivated.
November: A young boy, aged 16 years old, was attacked around the "Beit Yaakov" school in the 20th quarter in Paris. The boy was hit in the face and his aggressors expressed antisemitic slurs towards him.
December: Vandals painted swastikas and anti-Islam slogans on about 500 graves in the military cemetery in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire. The French Muslim war veterans graves and approximately 20 other nearby Jewish tombstones were desecrated on December 8th.
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