After the recent desecration of the Jewish graveyard in the town of Brumath, in the eastern French region of Alsace, around 400 people assembled at the gate of the site on Monday to express their outrage at this latest incident of anti-Semitism. Invited by the Jewish community, representatives of the Christian and Muslim faiths joined the region's president Adrien Zeller in a sign of protest and defiance. On Saturday, it was discovered that SS signs, swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans had been painted on tombstones of the Brumath cemetery near Strasbourg. On Monday, Catholics around the world celebrated 'All Saints day', in which people traditionally go to graveyards to pay respect to their dead ancestors.
Meanwhile, it was reported that in the evening of 31 October, the door of a synagogue located in the 23rd city district of Paris was damaged by two stone-throwing youngsters. Witnesses told police that the perpetrators were around 18 years of age and seemed to be of North-African origin.
