Overview

• Police reported four cars were defaced in Châtel, the mayor said five, and a victim quoted by Ynet claimed nine vehicles were hit.
• Prosecutors in Thonon-les-Bains opened an inquiry under the statute for damage committed because of race, ethnicity, nationality or religion, an offense carrying up to three years in prison.
• Local authorities are reviewing footage from roughly 70 CCTV cameras to identify the perpetrators.
• Many victims are strictly Orthodox Jews, including British families from Stamford Hill, and the mayor said the owners were identifiable as Jewish by their clothing.
• The regional branch of CRIF condemned the vandalism as antisemitic, and a victim from Vienna told Ynet he felt police were not taking the case seriously, against a backdrop of rising incidents and political friction over France’s planned recognition of Palestinian statehood.