Man smashes window, makes threat at Jewish library in France

An unidentified man smashed a window at a Jewish library near Marseille and shouted an anti-Semitic threat.

The man took a hammer to a window at the Aleph library in Villeurbanne, near Lyon in eastern France, on Wednesday afternoon, the news website 20minutes.fr reported.

When an attendant rushed to the building’s entrance, the man said, “We’ll get all of you Jews,” before mounting a scooter that was being driven by someone else. The man was wearing a scooter helmet that concealed his face.

Police arrived at the scene approximately four hours after the attack, according to the report.

Meanwhile, in the southern city of Marseille, which is home to France’s second-largest Jewish community, Jewish schools during working hours are under permanent police protection provided by machine-gun toting officers, the Swiss Tribune de Geneve reported Tuesday.

— JTA