By AFP 18 November 2023 | 12:54 pm France, where over 1,500 anti-Semitic acts and comments have been recorded since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, has slapped an 18-month jail term on a pensioner for anti-Jewish graffiti. The 62-year-old man was found guilty Friday by a Strasbourg court of inciting racial hatred in the eastern city near the German border. Strasbourg has… French Senate President Gerard Larcher (5thL), President of the French National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet (4thL), surrounded by French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne (2ndR), France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy (3rdL) and France’s former President Francois Hollande (R) sing the French national anthem as they stand behind a banner which reads as “For The Republic, Against anti-Semistism” during a march against anti-semitism in Paris, on November 12, 2023. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) France, where over 1,500 anti-Semitic acts and comments have been recorded since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, has slapped an 18-month jail term on a pensioner for anti-Jewish graffiti. The 62-year-old man was found guilty Friday by a Strasbourg court of inciting racial hatred in the eastern city near the German border. Strasbourg has one of France’s biggest Jewish communities. “It’s an exemplary decision … (to punish) hate messages,” said lawyer Raphael Nisand, who represented the city’s tram company whose property was defaced. The man was also fined 1,500 euros (about $1,100). The graffiti, which also appeared elsewhere in Strasbourg’s working-class Hautepierre district, were often misspelt but said the same thing — “Death to Jews” and “US, Israel = Nazis”, according to Nisand. The Alsace region where Strasbourg is located was effectively annexed from France by Nazi Germany during World War II, with several thousand of its Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Today, some 20,000 Jews live in Strasbourg or the surrounding Bas-Rhin department. Over 180,000 people turned out across France on Sunday according to police figures, to join marches against anti-Semitism. 1 day ago The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas says the 10th Assembly will strive to strengthen the Nigerian Armed forces and other security agencies to tackle security the challenges in the country 1 day ago A boat carrying Rohingya refugees that was forced back to sea earlier this week was sighted Saturday several miles off the coast of Indonesia’s westernmost region, according to a local commander. 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