Anti-Semitic graffiti daubed on Paris-area school named for Anne Frank

Anti-Jewish and anti-Roma graffiti have been found drawn in black marker on the front gate and the mailbox of a suburban Paris Jewish school named for teenage Holocaust diarist Anne Frank.

The graffiti on the Anne Frank School in Montreuil, an eastern suburb of Paris, includes swastikas and Stars of David with the word Jude, as well as statements such as “Jews forbidden” and “Filthy Jewish and Romani people.”

More graffiti was later found on other outside walls of the building, French daily Le Parisian reports. There were no security cameras in place to help identify the vandals.

“The inscriptions on Montreuil’s Anne Frank School are despicable. These actions will not remain unpunished.” France’s education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem says in a tweet.

The school’s former principal, Juliette Timsit, who lives in the neighborhood, is posting images of the graffiti on Facebook.

“This is the school that was targeted, particularly because of its name, Anne Frank,” she writes, “I was very proud to be a principal in this school. I love it. I am deeply affected by this and can barely hold back the tears.”

https://www.facebook.com/juliette.timsit/posts/10155285533969769

Police are conducting an investigation.

— JTA