Swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans were daubed on Jewish-owned stores in the Paris suburb of Garges-les-Gonesse last week. Police said that nine Jewish store owners filed complaints last Friday after they found their shop windows marked with anti-Semitic slogans. At the same time, a three-foot-high swastika and the slogan “France for Frenchmen only” were drawn on the walls of the small city’s underground parking garage.
Several non-Jewish local political personalities also had their walls daubed with hostile slogans and a workshop belonging to the city’s Socialist mayor was burned down as a result of criminal arson. There have been no arrests up till now and police say they have few clues in their investigation.
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