A 70-year-old Parisian Jew was struck in the head by a man who called her a “dirty Jew.” The woman, pressed charges against her attacker, who was described as a 30-year-old man of North African origin. Sammy Ghozlan, president of the National Office of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, said that a wave of anti-Semitic attacks following the recent murder of Ilan Halimi, a young Jewish man, has terrified the Jewish community.
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