Teenager arrested after reportedly waving machete in front of Jewish school in Lyon, France 

A teenager has been arrested after reportedly waving a machete in front of a Jewish school in Lyon, France.

The act was said to have taken place outside of the College/Lycee Juive de Lyon in Lyon’s suburb of Villeurbanne on Thursday. It was also reported that the teenager threw marbles at the school’s students and called them “dirty Jews”. 

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Chairman of the European Jewish Association, said that the event demonstrated the fact that “the need for education against antisemitism must begin early,” adding that “For this boy, it was too late.” 

Currently in France, the trial over the 2018 murder of a Holocaust survivor is underway in Paris’ Court of Assizes.

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