Strasbourg, France, the city where the reported assault occurred. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. A Jewish artist reportedly was assaulted on Aug. 27 in Strasbourg, France, while wearing a shirt that had the word “Israel” emblazoned on it.
The Algemeiner reported that the graffiti artist, identified as Raphael Nisand, was wearing a shirt that had Israel listed among multiple countries and cities. According to The Jerusalem Post, a group of people started to push around Nisand. One of the assailants allegedly said to Nisand, “You are a Jew you have no place.”
The suspects told Nisand to take off his shirt; he did, but when he returned to the street, one of the individuals used Nisand’s spray paint canister to write the words “No Jews or sluts” on Leon Blum Street, according to Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The street is named after a Holocaust survivor.
Authorities are investigating the incident.
Algemeiner editor Dovid Efune noted in a tweet that in addition to Nisand’s reported assault, the past 24 hours in France also has seen a man “detained for a 2014 antisemitic rape and home invasion” and two other men being “held for another violent antisemitic assault in Paris.”
Meanwhile, over the last 24 hours in France:
A man was detained for a 2014 antisemitic rape and home invasion.
Two men were held for another violent antisemitic assault in Paris.
A Jewish graffiti artist was roughed up. Assailants ordered him to remove his "Israel" shirt.
— Dovid Efune (@Efune) August 27, 2020
On Aug. 26, a French Algerian national was arrested in Algeria for allegedly taking part in a Paris suburb home invasion of a Jewish couple in 2014 and raping a 19-year-old woman in that home. On Aug. 27, two men were arrested in connection with an assault of a Jewish man in a Paris elevator earlier in the month; the Jewish man was knocked unconscious, authorities said.
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