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The facts go back to Thursday August 6. While on his way to his parents' home to pick up his 7-month-old daughter, a young man was the victim of a violent anti-Semitic attack in Paris. David, 29, has since filed a complaint when he was left unconscious by his two attackers, AFP told a police source on Tuesday.

This father says he was taken to task by two men while he was in the elevator, explained a police source confirming information from the Parisian . He reported being insulted, called a "dirty Jew, dirty race" and then being beaten.

Violence and theft of a watch

"He said he had been strangled several times then was pushed down the stairs and lost consciousness," continued the same source, adding that the man had been prescribed a total incapacity for work not exceeding eight days.

All my support for David and his family, victim of a violent and odious anti-Semitic aggression, these acts and these words have no place in Paris https://t.co/fqZ94zCjTX

- Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) August 11, 2020

It was the young man's father who discovered him in the stairwell, worried he would not see him arrive. The attackers also stole his Rolex watch worth 10,000 euros, according to the police source. "We ask the police services responsible for the investigation to do everything possible (papillary traces, DNA tests, surveillance videos, etc.) to identify the attackers and arrest them," said the National Office for Vigilance Against Antisemitism (BNVCA) in a press release, indicating that he is a civil party.

Another complaint filed

According to Le Parisien , the BNCVA would also have filed a complaint for willful violence in assembly, aggravated, of an anti-Semitic nature. "We forwarded it to the public prosecutor," specifies Sammy Ghozlan, president of the BNVCA. It is important that the victim does not feel alone. We want him to have the association behind him to support him. And we also want the investigative services to do everything possible to find the perpetrators motivated by hatred of the Jew, ”reports the daily. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, also supported the victim in a message posted Tuesday, August 11 on Twitter.

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