France investigates damaged Jewish headstones in WWI cemetery amid surge in anti-semitism

French authorities that they were investigating damage done to Jewish graves in a German World War I military cemetery amid a wave of anti-semitic acts spreading rapidly across the country.

As reported by the Times of Israel, citing the AFP, in the cemetery, situated in the Oise region north of Paris, 10 Jewish gravestones were discovered damaged on November 15.

Prosecutors said they immediately launched an investigation into the incident, with a racist or religious motive a possibility.

More than 1,500 antisemitic acts and comments have been recorded in France since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war following the Palestinian terror group’s October 7 onslaught, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on November 14.

There have been growing tensions in France, home to both the largest Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe, as war rages in the Gaza Strip.