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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
France launches probe over video of man seen harassing Jewish boy at Paris airport
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France has launched a probe after a video emerged of a man harassing and humiliating a young Jewish child at a Paris airport, demanding that he “free Palestine” and “dance,” a judicial source says.
The Paris police chief, Patrice Faure, expresses his “outrage at these unacceptable and intolerable remarks.”
“They will not go unpunished,” he says on X, adding that an investigation is “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 says in a post showing an image from the video of the incident.
On Sunday, The SwordOfSalomon account posted footage of the incident on X which has been viewed more than 440,000 times, claiming that it was filmed at the French capital’s Charles de Gaulle airport on June 25.
????✈️???? ANTISEMITIC INCIDENT AT PARIS–CDG AIRPORT :
???????? Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at around 7:00 a.m, in the PlayStation Zone ???? of Terminal 2B at Paris–Charles de Gaulle Airport, a man in his early 30s, speaking with a British accent ????????, verbally and physically targeted two… pic.twitter.com/8XY3ze0EYb
— SwordOfSalomon (@SwordOfSalomon) December 21, 2025
The video shows a young boy, whose face has been pixelated, playing a video game. A man, whose face cannot be seen, comes up to the boy and takes the toy.
“Are you gonna free Palestine, bro?” the man says to the boy in English, in a British accent. “If you don’t free them, I’ll snatch your hat off, bro,” he says, referring to the child’s kippa.
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.
Paris airports company Groupe ADP says it is “working closely with the state services and all stakeholders in the airport community, including the chief rabbi, who is one of the airport chaplains,” on the investigation, and says it will not tolerate any antisemitism.
The Times of Israel Community.