French prosecutors are investigating whether two Moldovans who admitted to daubing Stars of David on the walls of Parisian properties did so at the behest of someone abroad, the Paris prosecutor said on Tuesday.
A woman walks past a building tagged with Stars of David in Paris, France, October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Lucien Libert/File PhotoPARIS, Nov 7 -
French radio station Europe 1 reported last week that an individual in Russia had directed the 33-year-old man and woman, 29, to carry out the act. The prosecutor's office did not mention Russia in its statement, only that someone from abroad had communicated via telephone with the pair in Russian. "It is necessary to continue investigations into the antisemitic nature of the intention of the perpetrators of this damage, particularly in view of the geopolitical context and its impact in France,' Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.
Some 60 Stars of David were discovered daubed on walls in Paris on Oct. 31. More were grafittied in districts on the outskirts of the French capital. All were in a blue similar to the blue of the Israeli national flag. The pair were arrested over suspected property damage linked to 'origin, race, ethnicity or religion.' Their legal proceedings were terminated after they left the country.Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy will make his non-interventionist foreign policy a central plank of his pitch to voters in the coming weeks, he told Reuters, as he seeks to position himself as the least likely candidate in the nominating contest to wade into a foreign war.