An image posted on social media this weekend shows a woman holding up an anti-Semitic sign during a demonstration against the health pass in Metz on Saturday.
She was arrested by the police on Monday in Hombourg-Haut, Moselle.
The woman who brandished an anti-Semitic sign in Metz on Saturday during a demonstration against the health pass was arrested on Monday in Hombourg-Haut, a small town in Moselle, said a police source. "This morning, the police services arrested the young woman holding this sign", also tweeted the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin. The Metz prosecutor's office had opened an investigation into a "sign with a clearly anti-Semitic message", according to a press release from the Moselle prefecture on Sunday.
A photo posted on social media shows a young woman holding up the offending sign on which are inscribed the names of several politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, most of whom are Jewish. On the sign, the names frame the slogan: "but who?" This one appeared following an interview granted in June on the CNEWS channel of a retired general, Daniel Delawarde, signatory of a column evoking "the disintegration" of France published by the weekly Valeursuelles . To the question "who controls the 'media pack'?" and after several reminders, he replied "the community you know well", before being cut by the presenter, Jean-Marc Morandini.
The @_LICRA_ seized its legal commission to examine whether criminal proceedings are possible.
# anti-Semitism # Demonstrations7aouthttps: //t.co/gWJx5ko4FW
- Licra (@_LICRA_) August 8, 2021
Licra plans legal action
Several politicians have expressed their indignation and anti-discrimination associations are considering legal action. The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) announced on Sunday its intention to file a complaint and SOS Racisme said it was "studying" the possibility of legal proceedings. "Anti-Semitism killed yesterday and still kills today. Anti-Semitism is not an opinion. It is a crime, which must be condemned systematically", added, still on Twitter the Minister for Equality , Elisabeth Moreno.
Anti-Semitism killed yesterday and still kills today.
Anti-Semitism is not an opinion.
It is an offense, which must be condemned systematically.
Let us unite our voices to denounce this intolerable hatred which must never be trivialized.
Never. # Manif7aoutpic.twitter.com / lVhc9DyAUy
- Élisabeth Moreno (@ 1ElisaMoreno) August 8, 2021
The mayor of Metz, François Grosdidier (LR), said he was "outraged, scandalized, but unfortunately not surprised", denouncing a "mixture (of) all refusals in a convergence of extremes and in a populist and anti-Semitic magma".
The Israeli embassy in France said it was "appalled at such an expression of the most abject anti-Semitic hatred".