A Jewish youth who was wearing his yarmulka was badly beaten in Paris as he stood near the entrance to his building on Shabbat one week ago. According to a report by the European Jewish Press, 17-year-old Raymond did not want to violate Jewish law by opening the electronic door to the building in which he lives and was waiting for a neighbor to exit the building when a group of approximately 20 young Muslims surrounded him and began to beat him.
The Muslim youth, most of them immigrants or the children of immigrants, beat Raymond while shouting verses from the Koran. He was saved by a Jewish neighbor, who saw the attack and called police. According to a neighbor quoted in the report, police chased the fleeing attackers but did not succeed in catching them. Raymond was taken to a nearby hospital. The neighbor “saved my life,” Raymond declared later. No arrests have been made.