(JTA) — A Jewish man wearing a kipah was attacked in eastern France.
Two men wearing robes traditional to North Africa attacked the man, 41, with a knife and metal bar in the center of Strasbourg, the French news agency AFP reported. One of the assailants is a psychiatric patient, according to AFP.
The victim was treated at the hospital.
"It’s an anti-Semitic attack," Pierre Levy, regional delegate of CRIF, the umbrella representative body of France’s Jewish community, told AFP.
The two alleged attackers were detained by police.
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