(AFP) More than 180,000 people turned out on Sunday to march against anti-Semitism in France, after a surge in anti-Jewish incidents across the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
France has recorded nearly 1,250 anti-Semitic acts in recent weeks and President Emmanuel Macron — who did not attend Sunday — condemned the “unbearable resurgence of unbridled anti-Semitism.”
“A France where our Jewish citizens are afraid is not France,” Macron wrote in a letter published Saturday.
Police said 105,000 people had joined the Paris march, while interior ministry figures put the nationwide figure at 182,000.
Thousands of people gathered at more than 70 events across France, including in major cities Lyon, Nice and Strasbourg.
