"The Paris police chief, Patrice Faure, expressed his "outrage at these unacceptable and intolerable remarks." "They will not go unpunished," he said on X. He said an investigation was "underway to identify the individual and bring him to justice." "We express our support for our Jewish compatriots and assure them of our full commitment to combating antisemitic acts," Faure said in a post showing an image from the video of the incident."
""Are you gonna free Palestine, bro?," the man says to the boy in English. "If you don't free them, I'll snatch your hat off, bro," he says, referring to the child's kippah. The man also tells the child several times, in broken French, "dance, cachou" -- apparently mispronouncing the French word "cochon" (pig), and the confused boy is seen trying to dance."
French authorities launched a probe after video footage showed a man harassing and humiliating a young Jewish child at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport. The footage shows the man taking a toy, demanding the child "free Palestine," threatening to snatch the child's kippah and urging him to "dance, cachou." Paris police chief Patrice Faure condemned the remarks as "unacceptable and intolerable" and vowed perpetrators "will not go unpunished," saying an investigation is "underway to identify the individual and bring him to justice." The Bobigny prosecutor opened an inquiry into violence motivated by race, ethnicity, nationality or religion. Jewish groups report antisemitic assaults rose sharply after October 7, 2023.
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