The suspect recognizes the facts and will be tried on Monday – Liberation

Four days after the discovery of tags “Free Palestine” on cars belonging to Jewish confession on vacation in the Châtel station in Haute-Savoie. However, a suspect was arrested and indicted, the Thonon-les-Bains prosecutor said this Sunday, August 24, in a statement. Nevertheless, He will be tried on Monday, in immediate appearance.

During the night of August 19 to 20. Consequently, 2025, eight vehicles had been tagged with the inscription “Free Palestine”, arousing the excitement in this small Alpine station. In addition, Half of these vehicles belong to members of the Jewish community Loubavitch. residents of the United Kingdom, and who came to spend a vacation in this small mounting station in the Alps, according to the prosecution.

The investigation opened for “Degradation. deterioration of the property of others committed due suspect recognizes facts will tried to the alleged race, the ethnicity, the nation or the religion of the victim”quickly made it possible to identify a suspect, user of a vehicle present near the various facts.

The 32 -year -old man is a seasonal station. He has already been sentenced for a flight fact in 2018. for two facts of traffic offenses between 2022 and 2023, reports the prosecutor.

“At first, the individual denied the facts before finally recognizing them. He explained that he wanted to tag vehicles of “Israeli Jews” to “make his voice heard. pass a message on Palestine” “detailed this Sunday in a statement The prosecutor of Thonon-les-Bains, Xavier Goux-Thiercelin. He was referred to the judicial court and placed under judicial supervision pending the hearing on Monday.

The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes had denounced acts “Ignoble. suspect recognizes facts will tried committed in a vacation station where Jewish families come from around the world regularly”. “They are part of a strategy now trivialized : use the pretext of the “fight for the Palestinian cause” to attack Jews. only because they are Jews “condemned the CRIF regional antenna.

For decades. several stations in the Alps have been hosting members of the Orthodox Jewish community each summer, especially in the context of organized trips.