Overview
- Intruders climbed into the Grande synagogue of Levallois-Perret using a rope and removed between 13 and 15 handwritten Torah scrolls, items described by community leaders as sacred.
- Police and local officials estimate the stolen scrolls are worth about €80,000 to €100,000 in material value, while synagogue representatives say the spiritual loss is far greater.
- Local Jewish leaders and the prefecture have publicly condemned the theft as a deeply injurious act and called it antisemitic because the Torah itself appeared to be the target.
- Investigators have seized and are exploiting surveillance footage that officials say shows two suspects, but no arrests or recoveries of the scrolls have been announced.
- The synagogue is one of the largest in the Paris suburbs, which community representatives say magnifies the symbolic impact and is likely to prompt heightened security and a search for the missing Sefer Torahs.