A criminal enquiry has been opened in France after anti-Semitic graffiti recalling the darkest days of the Holocaust appeared in Paris. The Paris prosecutor's office has now opened an investigation for ‘aggravated voluntary damage’ and ‘provocation to racial hatred’. LICRA, France’s league against racism and anti-Semitism, posted a photo from Nazi Germany in 1938, contrasting it with an image of the Bagelstein graffiti. Some 67,000 French, Polish and German Jews were deported from Paris between June 1942 and July 1944. It is only in recent years that the French have begun to acknowledged the part they played in the Holocaust.

Source: Daily Mail February 11, 2019 08:35 UTC