“I expect French authorities responsible for the application of the law that they locate criminals and take strong measures against them,” the Israeli Minister of Transport reacted on Thursday.
Israel condemns a “barbarian acts». The entry of the premises of the Israeli airline EL AL in Paris was covered with red paint and hostile tags on the night of Wednesday, August 7. Journalists noted registrations on Thursday morning “Palestine will live, Palestine will defeat», «Fuck zionism“Or”The Airline GenocideOn the walls surrounding the front door of the building housing the company’s premises, rue de Turbigo (third arrondissement), in the center of the capital. The facade and the ground had been sprayed with red paint.
The Israeli Minister of Transport, Miri Regev, condemned on x a “barbaric and violent act against el al». «I await French authorities responsible for the application of the law that they locate criminals and take strong measures against them“, She added. “”Today is El Al, tomorrow is Air France . When French President Macron announces gifts to Hamas, here is the resultAlso wrote the Minister. Emmanuel Macron announced at the end of July that France would recognize the state of Palestine in September at the UN.
Pass advertising
“It’s an act of terrorism”
The Israel’s ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, went to the degraded facade at the end of the morning. “”It is an act of terrorism because it aims to terrorize, to terrorize EL AL employees, to terrorize Israeli citizens, to make them scare and to try to make them feel that they are not welcome, whether in France or outside their country“The diplomat told the press.
Read too
Emmanuel Macron is going to succeed in his bet on recognition of Palestine
According to the company, quoted by the Israeli television channel N12, “The incident occurred while the building was empty and there was no danger for the employees of the company». «El al proudly sports the Israeli flag on the tail of its planes and condemns any form of violence, in particular that based on anti -Semitism“Added the national company.
Several precedents
At the beginning of June, several Jewish places in Paris had been sprayed with green painting, and three Serbs were indicted and imprisoned, suspected by the investigators to have acted in order to serve the interests of a foreign power, possibly Russia.
Israel has been at war in the Gaza Strip against Hamas since the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement on its soil on October 7, 2023. The attack on October 7 led to the Israeli side the death of 1219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count made from official data. The Israeli offensive carried out in retaliation left at least 61,158 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of Hamas, deemed reliable by the UN.
