The president of the largest Jewish association in France, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif), also slammed the far-Left party.
“We must fight against this climate of anti-Semitism fueled by France Insoumise,” Yonathan Arfi said. “We must do everything to fight both extremes, without compromise.”
Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-Right National Rally founded by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was convicted several times for anti-Semitic comments, condemned both the attack and her political rivals in the Left bloc, whom she called “a real threat to civic peace”.
“…the stigmatisation of Jews over the past months by the extreme left, using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an instrument, is a real threat to civil peace. Everyone should be fully aware of this on June 30 and July 7,” she wrote.
On Thursday, Jacques Kossowski, the mayor of Courbevoie, accused politicians of instrumentalising the tragedy for political gain.
“This is a 12-year-old girl who had the courage to speak to her father, to go to the police station to file a complaint. She suffered what no one could suffer,” he told French radio station RTL.
“Let’s try not to politically exploit this affair. When I see all the political parties, right, left, talking about it… Let’s be a little more modest and think of only one thing, of this 12-year-old girl.”
According to government figures, anti-Semitic acts soared 300 per cent between January and March, compared to the same period last year.
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