display
According to his own statement, the French Jewish writer Marek Halter was attacked on Saturday night in Paris.
In an interview with the French newspaper "Le Figaro", Halter reported that two people wearing black hoods broke into his house through his window while he was sleeping.
"Both wore black gloves and looked professional, nimble," the author is quoted as saying.
“I grabbed whoever was near me to ask what he was doing in my house.
Then he kicked me a couple of times.
I have bruises and a couple of wounds. "
Halter assumes that the strangers wanted to threaten and intimidate him.
“They took out my credit card and left it on the table to show they didn't care.
They took my keys as if they wanted to come back, ”said the 85-year-old.
According to the French newspaper, the police are investigating the case.
The writer also reported that "both the Home Secretary and President Emmanuel Macron" called him after the crime.
"That gave me the feeling that it is good to live in a democracy in which the state looks after the rights of its citizens."
display
Halter was born in the Warsaw ghetto in 1936.
His family escaped the Holocaust and fled to Uzbekistan before emigrating to France in 1950.
In his works the author repeatedly deals with Judaism.
He is currently working on his new book "A World Without Prophets".