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Earlier this week, as reported in Algemeiner, three yarmulke-wearing young Jews in Villeurbanne, France were attacked with hammers and iron bars by a mob of over a dozen Muslim youths. The victims had to be hospitalized and then were released.
The Times of Israel reports that police are still looking for the perpetrators, and that they're believed to be of North African extraction.
It was only in March, of course, that the French Muslim Mohammed Merah killed a teacher-rabbi and three young children in a French Jewish school in Toulouse. But from that incident to this latest, somewhat publicized incident, things have hardly been quiet for French Jews.
Not only did French Jewish leaders tell The Times of Israel that "There has been a series of acts like the one in Villeurbanne" and that "Not a week passes without anti-Semitic assaults in France." Ariel Goldman, vice-president of the French Jewish communal organization CRIF, revealed that the Toulouse attack—however horrifying to many—acted as something of a tonic: "In the month following [it] we counted 140 such acts…. This amounts to a third of the violent incidents we had in 2011."