France saw an increase of 58 percent in anti-Semitic incidents in 2012 compared to the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday by the SPCJ, the security unit of France’s Jewish communities.
The report showed that 614 anti-Semitic acts were documented in the country last year compared to 389 in 2011.
Incidents in which the victims were accosted physically or verbally on the street increased 82 percent, to 315 last year from 177 cases in 2011, SPCJ said. A fourth of the 96 physical anti-Semitic assaults involved a weapon.
The head of France’s CRIF Jewish representative group, Richard Prasquier, said…
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