Overview

• City officials confirmed the words were scratched into the black marble memorial unveiled in January 2025 outside the station from which Jews were deported during the Second World War.
• Mayor Grégory Doucet condemned the defacement, said those responsible would be pursued and prosecuted, and the municipality removed the inscription and restored the plaque.
• CRIF president Yonathan Arfi posted a photo of the graffiti, and Rhône prefect Fabienne Buccio denounced the act and expressed support for the Jewish community.
• France’s Interior Ministry recorded 646 antisemitic acts in the first half of 2025, a 27% decline from the same period in 2024 yet more than double the first half of 2023.
• Recent cases include green-paint attacks on Jewish sites in Paris and arrests over the felling of an Ilan Halimi memorial tree, alongside political flare-ups such as Benjamin Netanyahu’s criticism of Emmanuel Macron and France summoning the US ambassador over comments on antisemitism.